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

[Błażej Kaczorowski]

Was he arested? There is no info about that in news.

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