JAP back doored

[Adam Shostack]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:47:34PM -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
| http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-02.09.03-005/
| 
| German police have searched and seized the rooms (dorm?) of one of the JAP 
| developers.  They were on the look for data that was logged throughout the 
| period when JAP had to log specific traffic.  The JAP-people say that the 
| seizure was not conform with German law. They suggest that the police was 
| afraid that they wouldn't  gain the right to use this data before a normal 
| court. So they "stole" it to make things clear.  And since the JAP team did 
| cooperate with them the previous time they now have the logs to get seized.
| 
| I'll bet the logs weren't encrypted.  Fools.

That's the cool bit about playing by the law; they can ignore it, ruin
people's lives, and then get a month off with pay while their actions
are investigated.

Adam


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