Pirate Party Official Raided after Uncovering State Trojan

Written by Ernesto on September 17, 2008 

The
spokesperson of the German Pirate Party saw his house raided after the
party published a leaked document which showed that the government uses
a homemade “trojan” to wiretap Skype conversations. In addition, a
server from another party member was seized.

The
Pirate Party is known for it’s battle against the ever increasing
government surveillance on the public. So, when an anonymous
whistleblower sent them a internal document which showed that the
government went as far as installing trojans on computers, they didn’t
hesitate to publish it.

German authorities weren’t too happy about the leak, which might be illegal according
to a criminal law specialist, and went after the source. Earlier this
week police searched the home of the Pirate Party spokesperson where
they hoped to find more information. In addition to the home search, a
server from another party member was seized. The server, however, was
fully encrypted, so chances are low that it will uncover the
whistleblower.

In a response, Andreas Popp, Chairman of the Bavarian Pirate Party
said: “A brave person leaks documents to the Pirate Party, to inform
the public about a procedure of the Bavarian Government, which is
highly likely to violate the constitution. Now this persons is hunted
like a criminal. Private rooms are raided, servers get seized.”

Pirate Parties around the world will continue to speak out against these, and other privacy threats. The trojan in question (German) was able to tap into Skype calls and intercept traffic to encrypted websites.

Om det kan hända i Tyskland kan det garanterat hända i Sverige. Det är bara en tidsfråga. 

Dock blev jag positivt överraskad över att den person vars server stals av polisen var tillräckligt paranoid för att sätta stopp för polisens olagliga undersökning genom att han hade krypterade hårddiskarna på servern.

Jag hoppas verkligen att han inte lämnar ut lösenord/nycklar till polisen. Detta är minst sagt klara indikationer på det jag sagt hela tiden, polisen arbetar inte för medborgarnas bästa utan för att hålla dessa i schack.

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