Public Records in USA v. Sklyarov
Cryptome has obtained 60 pages of public records filed in USA v. Dmitry Sklyarov: five pages of Court documents and 55 pages of submissions in support of Dmitry's character and achievements. They are offered in compressed TIFF format: Court Documents: Order Setting Conditions of Release and Appearance Bond, August 6, 2001 http://cryptome.org/ds-bond-order.tif (1 page, 87KB) Magistrate Judge Minute Order, August 6, 2001 http://cryptome.org/ds-minute-order.tif (1 page, 83KB) Warrant for Arrest, July 11, 2001 http://cryptome.org/ds-arrest-warrant.tif (1 page, 43KB) USA Motion to Seal the Criminal Complaint and Arrest Warrant, July 11, 2001 http://cryptome.org/ds-motion-to-seal.tif (1 page, 42KB) Sealing Order by Magistrate Patricia Trumbull, July 11, 2001 http://cryptome.org/ds-order-to-seal.tif (1 page, 28KB) These five are available in a Zipped file: http://cryptome.org/sklyarov-orders.zip (5 pages, 276KB) The Criminal Complaint was also in the public records but heretofore published: http://cryptome.org/usa-v-sklyarov.htm Submissions in Support of Dmitry: English and Russian documents -- consulate letters, certificates of education and achievement, letters of colleagues, friends and Elcomsoft clients -- in a Zipped file of compressed TIFF images: http://cryptome.org/sklyarov-vouch.zip (55 pages, 2.82MB)
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, John Young wrote:
Cryptome has obtained 60 pages of public records filed in USA v. Dmitry Sklyarov: five pages of Court documents and 55 pages of submissions in support of Dmitry's character and achievements. They are offered in compressed TIFF format:
Most of these tiff files do not download: are they still "available"? I was especially interested in the sealing order... -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------
On Tuesday, August 7, 2001, at 06:19 AM, <measl@mfn.org> wrote:
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, John Young wrote:
Cryptome has obtained 60 pages of public records filed in USA v. Dmitry Sklyarov: five pages of Court documents and 55 pages of submissions in support of Dmitry's character and achievements. They are offered in compressed TIFF format:
Most of these tiff files do not download: are they still "available"? I was especially interested in the sealing order...
Maybe that was sealed? The warrant was sealed, the evidence was sealed...one wonders why it was even announced that Dmitry was arrested? Wouldn't it have been more consistent with the various levels of Adobe-complicit secrecy and sealings to simply nab him out of his hotel room and hold him for the star chamber proceedings next year? Oh, I know why the "take down" was so loud and public: Adobe and the FBI wanted a high-visibility case for the chilling effect. Well, Adobe got their chilling effect--on them. Welcome to Star Chamber America, where court orders are sealed, where witnesses have their identities hidden, where Special Intelligence Courts handle secret cases, and where some Cypherpunks even narc out other list members in the hopes that listening Feds will order a pre-dawn raid and trigger a firefight. --Tim May
On Tuesday, August 7, 2001, at 09:15 AM, Tim May wrote:
On Tuesday, August 7, 2001, at 06:19 AM, <measl@mfn.org> wrote:
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, John Young wrote:
Cryptome has obtained 60 pages of public records filed in USA v. Dmitry Sklyarov: five pages of Court documents and 55 pages of submissions in support of Dmitry's character and achievements. They are offered in compressed TIFF format:
Most of these tiff files do not download: are they still "available"? I was especially interested in the sealing order...
Maybe that was sealed? The warrant was sealed, the evidence was sealed...one wonders why it was even announced that Dmitry was arrested? Wouldn't it have been more consistent with the various levels of Adobe-complicit secrecy and sealings to simply nab him out of his hotel room and hold him for the star chamber proceedings next year?
Oh, I know why the "take down" was so loud and public: Adobe and the FBI wanted a high-visibility case for the chilling effect. Well, Adobe got their chilling effect--on them.
Welcome to Star Chamber America, where court orders are sealed, where witnesses have their identities hidden, where Special Intelligence Courts handle secret cases, and where some Cypherpunks even narc out other list members in the hopes that listening Feds will order a pre-dawn raid and trigger a firefight.
--Tim May
Note that it was the United States Attorney's office which first published the criminal complaint on July 17 while the case records remained sealed until August 6, 2001. The judge's Minute Order of August 6 stated: "Complaint is ordered unsealed," three weeks after the USA deployed the complaint for its exclusive spin, and perfectly timed for Mueller's hearing as FBI head -- Mueller's name is on the sealing motion. For those unable to download the Sklyarov images, here is what the USA's request to seal said: ----- The United States of America, through undersigned counsel, requests that the criminal complaint and arrest warrant to be issued on this date in the above styled matter remained [sic] sealed until further motion by the government. The government requests that the criminal complaint and arrest warrant be placed under seal to avoid compromising the investigation or placing any of the agents involved in the investigation in danger during the completion of the investigation. Dated July 10, 2001 Respectfully submitted, ROBERT S. MUELLER, III United States Attorney JOSEPH SULLIVAN Assistant United States Attorney ----- The Judge's order to seal: For the reasons set forth in the government's application for a sealing order, it is ORDERED that the criminal complaint and arrest warrant issued on this date in the above styled matter be sealed. Dated: 7/10/01 Patricia Trumbull United States Magistrate Judge -----
At 1:12 PM -0700 8/7/01, John Young wrote: <...>
For those unable to download the Sklyarov images, here is what the USA's request to seal said: <...>
and arrest warrant be placed under seal to avoid compromising the investigation or placing any of the agents involved in the investigation in danger during the completion of the investigation.
Dated July 10, 2001 Respectfully submitted, ROBERT S. MUELLER, III United States Attorney
JOSEPH SULLIVAN Assistant United States Attorney
be sealed.
Dated: 7/10/01 Patricia Trumbull United States Magistrate Judge
Hmmm... Agents in danger from a russian programmer who is charged with talking about illegal things and writing bad code. Yeah, He probably knows how to use an AK-47, and carries 4 with him at all times. One wonders whether Patty Trumbull really exists, or is just a squiggly line on a rubber stamp somewhere. -- http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp7761121.html It is one of the essential features of such incompetence that the person so afflicted is incapable of knowing that he is incompetent. To have such knowledge would already be to remedy a good portion of the offense.
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