To explain the joke with the "removed water taps". It happened that the water taps in the new building in Berlin for the secret service had been removed, which resulted in a large damage because of the flowing water. The curiosity is, that anything relating to this construction site is classified. and all the people having access to it are monitored. But they still have no glue who removed the water taps.
It essentially says 'you've been owned'.
Verratsdatenspeicherung (translated as mandatory data retention in your text) is a pun.
Vorratsdatenspeicherung = data retention "in case we need it later" (Vorrat = stock, supply etc.)
Verratsdatenspeicherung = treason data retention
- "GBA" -> Attorney General
- "exfiltration" is that a proper word? "leaking", "draining"?
- "reward initiatives" -> "reward the best investigations by attorney general against journalists"
I do believe exfiltration is a real word but I've changed it.
See for instance: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/data-exfiltration-da...
I'd translate this as: "The Chaos Computer Club therefore wants to reward the best investigations initiated in 2015 against journalists ..."
The meaning is a bit complicated.
The Chaos Computer wants to reward people, who have caused such investigations, with a free ticket for the next congress. Basically they want to reward whistleblowers and related.
After examining a complaint by the secret service the Attorney General is investigating the editors of netzpolitik.org.
The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) congratulates the editors for receiving this rare journalistic honor and promises support in both action and funds. We ask them to give Attorney General Harald Range more occasions for intimidation campaigns against journalists.
Only extensive mandatory data retention will allow the attorney general to keep track of:
- Which journalists report on anti-constitutional practices of secret services?
- Who has expressed themselves against surveillance fetishists?
- Who prevents the under-cover operatives/informers of the secret service from constructing and supporting extreme right-wing structures?
- Who removed the water taps from major construction sites?
"We have finally figured out how to dislodge mr. Range from his lethargy" says Dirk Engling, CCC spokesman. "For a long time we thought that the leaking of data about citizens and institutions did not bother the attorney general, but we realize now that we were mistaken. Let us make sure that he has plenty of work!"
Mr. Range has the chance to enter history. During the Spiegel affair in 1962 the sum total of arrest days for journalists was about 190. A nice chance to take the lowly two digit placement of the German Republic in the ranks of press-freedom to a solid three digit place.
The Chaos Computer wants to reward people, who have caused investigations by the attorney general against journalists and their sources in 2015 each with a free ticket for the next congress (32C3).
Participants are encouraged to contact journalists, the CC or a whistleblowing platform of your choice. We are looking forward to receive contributions in the following domains:
- Secret services and mass surveillance as well as their commercial partners
- Covert investigations and liaison officers,
- Reconstructions of shredded documents
- Aiding and abetting of right-wing terrorists
- Surveillance operations involving unpopular opposition parties.
A special prize will be awarded for any revelations that cause the attorney general to reactivate the since spring 2014 weakened prosecutions against foreign and domestic secret services as well as the German government.