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

[Andreas Popp]

No, nobody was arrested. The only copied a few E-Mails from our
(public!) mailinglist according to my information. And the server of
that other party member was seized btw

Błażej Kaczorowski schrieb:
> 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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