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

[Andreas Popp]

I do, but I don't know if they want to make international phone calls ^^.

Our Bavarion Info-Line (which is currently only occuipied by me in late
afternoon and evening) is reachable under: +49 841 4544502

But I am available via
- Skype under the name of "uruhara-san"
- ICQ 76225858
- Jabber: Andi at jabber.piratenpartei.de
- Mail
most of the day (if this might help anyone, I'm not really expirienced
in being contactet by media through any other channel than mail :D)

Greets
Andi

> Thanks, much appreciated.
>
> Andreas, do you have a phone number for media calls (in English)? Just
> finalizing our press release.
>
> Rick
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> Andreas Popp wrote:
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>> Rick Falkvinge (Piratpartiet) schrieb:
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>>> If you could give more details to this list, that would be great, as we
>>> can expect media attention.
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>>> Rick
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>> 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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