[pp.int.general] Press Release: Member of German Pirate Party raided

[Rick Falkvinge (Piratpartiet)]

Thanks, much appreciated.

Andreas, do you have a phone number for media calls (in English)? Just
finalizing our press release.

Rick



Andreas Popp wrote:
> Rick Falkvinge (Piratpartiet) schrieb:
>   
>> If you could give more details to this list, that would be great, as we
>> can expect media attention.
>>
>> Rick
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> Ok, here we go (Pardon my english if, I don't have time to crossread
> right now):
>
> In january one of our members (I don't know who and I don't want to know
> ^^) got ahold of an internal paper of the Bavarian departmen of justice.
> For everyone who does not know, Germany is a federal state, Bavaria is
> the biggest state in squaremeters und second biggest in population.
> Governed by a single conservative party which had more than 50%  of
> votes in parliament elecetions since the end of WWII. This party is
> known for it's highly authorical style of government.
>
> There was evidence in this paper, that the Bavarian authorities were
> already using trojans for infiltration of private PCs (in this case
> Skype-Surveillance and Man-In-The-Middle-Attacks to break
> SSL-Encryption), but the law to allow such surveillance is still in
> dispute, as it was back than. In Summer the German Constituional Court
> broke a simular law of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. We published
> this paper on our website, got some attention, but could not confirm its
> authenticity.
>
> On Thursday the person responsible for writing this article on our
> website (our press spokesman) got woken at 5:45 AM by several police
> officers who threatend seize all his PCs and storage sevices if he would
> not cooperate. Reason for the court's seizing order wer investigation
> against "unknown" because of "breaking of official state secrets". Since
> the person raided did not have any information about the leaker nothing
> was taken, which IMHO shows, that the investigators knew about that and
> that this raid was only a try to intimidate us, who published the paper.
>
> Furthermore a server of another party member, hosted in Bavaria was
> seized. It seems if there were also trails leeding to him, but I am not
> sure, but it happend on friday, one day after the raid of our press
> spokesman, so we are nearly sure, that the same investigators were
> responsible. This server is encrypted though, so there is no big chance
> they might get anything, even IF there is anything on it (again I don't
> know an really don't want to know, to not be the next one raided^^).
>
> Further questions? go ahed :)
>
> greetings
> andi
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