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Italian ISP Hides Data Acquisition by Police

Posted by timothy on from the at-least-this-couldn't-happen-in-the-states dept.

jaromil writes "It happened recently in Italy: the provider Aruba lied to a customer calling "power loss" a police action to acquire all data contained in the harddisks of the AUT/INV collective, keeping it secret for a whole year, while more than 30.000 people used its encrypted services for private comunications."

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  1. What can be done to prevent this? by vrimj · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't regularly use encrypted mail, but I will have a need to do so in the future. How can I assure privicy upstream? Are there US compnies or laws that will make me more secure?

  2. Re:Incredible! by quinto2000 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Criminals? Interesting conclusion to draw. Because they were "wiretapped", they must have been committing some crime.

    Actually, Italy has a long history of repressive search and seizure laws that go far beyond what would be considered okay in the US. I am curious to know if they had a warrant for any information that could have been in traffic passing through the server, or it was just some fishing expedition.

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  3. Genoa G8 by Exitar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It seems that Autistici/Inventati server hosted files about a trial that involve italian police abuses during Genoa G8...

  4. Re:Incredible! by Alereon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Do we know that they weren't under a gag order of some kind that legally prevented them from disclosing their cooperation with the police?