I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer has been backdoored

Re:I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer h... by csoghoian on Saturday February 09, 2013 @10:10PM (#5195266)

Although the details of the gov's investigation and harassment of Jake are largely shrouded in secrecy, his harassment at the border began right after giving a keynote at HOPE 2010 in place of Julian Assange, as the only US citizen identified in the media as a member of the Wikileaks team.

Although I think what the US government has done to Jake is quite clearly a disgusting abuse of power, let us not kid ourselves by somehow believing that the state has gone after him because he has publicly advocated for the use of strong crypto.

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Re:I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer h... by rdl on Sunday February 10, 2013 @10:00AM (#5196546)

However, Phil Z did get harassed over strong crypto, but that was in the bad old days.

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Re:I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer h... by yakiv on Saturday February 09, 2013 @11:57PM (#5195474)

I don't really know anything about this story, but do you have any guesses as to why they did go after him?

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Re:I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer h... by pyre on Sunday February 10, 2013 @11:42AM (#5196855)

  | his harassment at the border began right after
  | giving a keynote at HOPE 2010 in place of Julian
  | Assange

  | the only US citizen identified in the media as
  | a member of the Wikileaks team.

I'm thinking that these two pieces of information are part of it.

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Re:I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer h... by plaguuuuuu on Sunday February 10, 2013 @10:02PM (#5199100)

Interesting side note

Assange developed part of Truecrypt if I recall correctly.

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Re:I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer h... by EwanToo on Monday February 11, 2013 @08:47AM (#5200703)

He was one of the developers of Rubberhose - a similar, earlier, tool to Truecrypt, not Truecrypt itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose_%28file_system%29

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Re:I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer h... by lawnchair_larry on Saturday February 09, 2013 @10:20PM (#5195288)

What about moxie?

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Re:I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer h... by pyre on Sunday February 10, 2013 @11:43AM (#5196860)

IIRC, moxie said at some point that he was being harassed because he was a contact on Jake's phone which was confiscated by the US government at some point, so now he's associated with him.

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