JAP back doored
Adam Shostack
adam at homeport.org
Tue Sep 2 13:19:02 PDT 2003
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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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
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