Bundes Trojan Abused - Confirmed by PiratenPartei
PiratenPartei ( PiratePartei.de ) - 17.09.2008 18:12
Pirate Party in the spotlight – Existence of the „Bayerntrojaner“ confirmed
A few days ago, Bavarian Police raided the private rooms of the press spokesman of the German Pirate Party. Like in the Cicero Case, the authorities were searching for a leaker in their own rows. In January during the discussion about the so called „Bundestrojaner“ (Note: „Federal Trojan“, a spy software for infiltration of private Computers by state authorities), the Pirate Party released an internal document of the Bavarian department of justice received by an unknown person, which shows that such software might already be used without legal authorization. After the raid, the authenticity of this document can be considered confirmed.
Pirate Party in the spotlight – Existence of the „Bayerntrojaner“ confirmed
A few days ago, Bavarian Police raided the private rooms of the press spokesman of the German Pirate Party. Like in the Cicero Case, the authorities were searching for a leaker in their own rows. In January during the discussion about the so called „Bundestrojaner“ (Note: „Federal Trojan“, a spy software for infiltration of private Computers by state authorities), the Pirate Party released an internal document of the Bavarian department of justice received by an unknown person, which shows that such software might already be used without legal authorization. After the raid, the authenticity of this document can be considered confirmed.
The situation is politically charged because of the affected person being a member of the executive committee of the Bavarian Pirate Party. The German Pirate Party repeatedly criticized this kind of spy software already. They further say, that there must be more parliamentary control over services like the BKA (Note: The German Federal Police, something like the US FBI) instead of more uncontrollable permissions for them, to prevent the civil rights from being undermined. Jens Seipenbusch, Vice Chairman of the PIRATEN says: „This procedure can only be considered a repression of our political efforts. It looks like some of our state officials want to establish a surveillance state without the people noticing.“
The raid of the Pirate Party's press spokesman's private rooms must therefore be considered an intimidation, especially since the investigators should have known, that he does not know the identity of the leaker. Moreover a server of another party member, which was hosted in Bavaria, was seized. The danger of information stored on this server being analyzed is low though, since it was encrypted with strong encryption software.
Andreas Popp, Chairman of the Bavarian Pirate Party says: „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. I want to tell this person, that measures have been taken to avoid unwanted access to data, which might lead to his or her identification.“
press contacts:
Andreas Popp
Chairman of the Bavarian Pirate Party
E-Mail: andreas.popp (at) piratenpartei-bayern (dot) de mit "(at)"="@" und "(dot)"="."
Thorsten Wirth
Chairman of the Hesse Pirate Party
E-Mail: t.wirth (at) piratenpartei-hessen (dot) de mit "(at)"="@" und "(dot)"="."
Jens Seipenbusch
Vice Chairman of the German Pirate Party
E-Mail: js (at) piratenpartei (dot) de mit "(at)"="@" und "(dot)"="."
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