[pp.int.general] Police seizes servers of German Pirate Party

[David Arcos]

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Ole Husgaard <pirat at sparre.dk> wrote:

> Richard Stallman skrev:
> >     the guys here at the #spanishrevolution camps were using piratenpad
> to
> >     create docs, coordinate efforts and keep inventories and stuff.
> >     This has been a serious incovenience :(
> >
> > I wonder if that was the motive for seizing them -- to try to sabotage
> > the protest.
> >
> There are many possible motives for this:
>
> - To make it harder for the the party to gain votes in the federal state
> elections in Bremen this Sunday.
> - To generally make it harder for the German Pirate Party to operate.
> - To gain insight in private communications within the party.
> - To get the party membership list.
> - To make it harder for PPI and other pirate parties to operate, as
> these often use the IT infrastructure of the German Pirate Party.


- To steal private data from the party, aside from membership
- To compromise (add trojans, hardware sniffers, whatever) to the servers
- To create fear


The outcome they didn't expect was this: http://polizei.de
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