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Wikileaks Releases Docs Before Trial of TPB Founder Warg
Pirate Bay Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is to be tried starting tomorrow in Sweden, after his indictment last month for computer hacking and fraud. Wikileaks has released several documents related to his detention and the associated charges.
From the summary of this material: "This material includes inter alia the interrogations with GSW and his co-accused, internal correspondence from the Swedish Foreign Minister and the Swedish embassy in Cambodia, damage assessment reports by the companies and the authorities concerned, and correspondence between GSW and Kristina Svartholm and the Swedish prison authorities. The material is formally public, but the Swedish prosecution authority has refused to provide the documents in digital format. Photocopying this volume of paper costs around £350."
Notable is the refusal of Warg's request to obtain a graphing calculator while in prison.
With a graphing calculator he'd be able to properly plot the trajectory of his prison escape cannon.
a graphing calculator these days... is as good as a computer, just without the internet access. that's a strange point.
In Sweden, these type of documents are accessible to the public, you just order them and pay an administrative fee. It's nice that Wikileaks releases the documents digitally tho.
that was in the summary. that it costs 350 to get these in paper format since the prosecutor refused to give them in digital form...
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
In the Logica incident report it says that after the incident they run the same password cracking tools as the perpetrators and managed to crack a very large number of user passwords. Their summary:
In general, the passwords set by Logica, Applicate and their customers are:
created
Since RACF stores its passwords in uppercase only, and that there is a restriction on what
characters can be used, the keyspace is samewhat limited, thus letting the attacker running a
brute force password cracking attem pt gaining yet a nother advantage.
350 british pounds is a small fee to you?
Can i bum 100 off ya? I uhm, need to buy a small coffee.
The prosecution were attempting the censor the information by making it difficult to access. Censorship doesn't have to be absolute to be effective. Now the barrier to reading these documents went from £350 to £0 and the electronic format is easier to handle (searching etc.)
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
If it is just processing cost then the government should be happy wikileak is publishing the same document more efficiently in a better format for free. In fact they should even link to wikileak directly as a cheap and faster alternative while thanking them for their good work.
On the other hand if it is about censorship then they will be mad about it. They will blame wikileak for all the evil in the world and use the legal system to bully someone into compliance.
Let see what they do next...