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

[Błażej Kaczorowski]

You will have to train :)

2008/9/17 Andreas Popp <andreas.popp at gmx.de>:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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