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

[Błażej Kaczorowski]

Press info send and also news on our webpage http://partiapiratow.org.pl/ is in.

Regards,
Błażej

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