Re:Tor exit node operator raided in Austria
by lazyjones on Thursday November 29, 2012 @05:07PM
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Here's a notorius austrian court-appointed linguistics "expert" who became infamous during the trial of animal rights activists accused of forming a terrorist group:
He claimed to be able to prove with near certainty that one of the defendants wrote some letters and articles whose real authors were named in the trial, by using contrived (and obviously error-prone) text analysis methods some real linguistics experts called absurd.
The defendants were all acquitted by the judge, who was subsequently moved to a much less prestigious job, while the prosecutor was promoted.
So yes, there are show trials in Austria and the defendant in the Tor case hopefully wasn't a political activist.
http://images.derstandard.at/t/12/livebericht/1297818651208/...
He claimed to be able to prove with near certainty that one of the defendants wrote some letters and articles whose real authors were named in the trial, by using contrived (and obviously error-prone) text analysis methods some real linguistics experts called absurd.
The defendants were all acquitted by the judge, who was subsequently moved to a much less prestigious job, while the prosecutor was promoted.
So yes, there are show trials in Austria and the defendant in the Tor case hopefully wasn't a political activist.