Repression in Austria over PGP keys

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Richard Forno [rforno () infowarrior org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 6:53 PM
Cc: David Farber
Subject: Repression in Austria over PGP keys

Repression in Austria over PGP keys
Tuesday, July 08 2008 @ 09:38 PM CDT

In the early hours of May 21st a police raid against over 20 animal
protectionists took place throughout Austria. Ten people were
arrested. Over twenty homes and offices, including the office of the
VGT (Association against Animal Factories) were searched, mostly by
special police squads, which in some cases entered premises by
breaking down the door and threatening inhabitants at gun point.
Computers, complete with donator data bases, papers, including the
book keeping and other items of property were seized and apart from a
few exceptions, nothing has yet been returned.

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It has been inferred by the prosecution that because some of the
detainees use PGP to protect their data from unauthorised misuse that
they belong to a criminal organization. It is as if one should be
regarded as suspicious for locking one's door.

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http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20080708213849837



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