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German Police Seize German Pirate Party Servers

Posted by timothy on from the perhaps-they-got-the-names-backwards dept.

fph il quozientatore writes "The German police have seized today the servers from the German Pirate Party after an attack on the French company EDF. Apparently they are looking for evidence of allegiance with the Anonymous group. In completely unrelated news, the website of the German police was down this afternoon."

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  1. Hmm... by The+Master+Control+P · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The official state apparatus being used to harass opposition parties? In Germany? Days before an election? No, I'm not touching this one with a ten foot pole.

  2. Re:Sigh by Yvanhoe · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The German pirate party was probably not involved in anything. They host an etherpad service (piratenpad.de) that was working well and provided anonymity. Some attackers probably used it to share data without the PP's knowledge.

    Also many sources say that shutting down all servers of the political party was really exaggerated and that there will likely be legal consequences. It might sound like a joke, but Germans are a bit sensitive when seeing the police raid a political party. I think that this accident will, rightfully, help the pirate party.

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  3. Re:Mayhem only begets mayhem by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So when some group attacks some company we seize the property of a random pro-liberty group?

    Is that your understanding of democracy?

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