Star Chamber America

[Tim May]

On Tuesday, August 7, 2001, at 09:15 AM, Tim May wrote:

>
> On Tuesday, August 7, 2001, at 06:19 AM, <measl at 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