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

[Andreas Popp]

Yeah I will, I have a phone interview at 18:00 :D

Błażej Kaczorowski schrieb:
> 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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