U.S. government workers in the next sighting Wikileaks

U.S. government workers in the next sighting Wikileaks

The Inter-American provider Sonic.net and search engine provider Google
have a newspaper report that information through the e-mail account of
the Wikileaks Helper Jacob Appelbaum issue to the U.S. government must.
The company had done so held under a court order sealing series, the
Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The government had demanded
among other things, details about the e-mail addresses that have
corresponded with those of Appelbaum, but not the content itself via e-mail

Appelbaum is a security expert, hackers, and one of the masterminds
behind the anonymous Tor project. He has been advised repeatedly to the
attention of U.S. authorities. In January 2011 the government had forced
the short message service Twitter , data on some users to publish, which
stood in connection with Wikileaks - including, besides Appelbaum, the
Icelandic parliament deputy Birgitta Jónsdóttir and the Dutch hacker Rop
Gonggrijp. Against them by a judge in an expedited procedure -sanctioned
investigation is the appeal.

Against the 28-year-old U.S. citizen Appelbaum has been collected, the
report says no charges. In secret court orders, the company also can not
inform the customers concerned about the activities. Compared to CNET
News said Sonic CEO Dane Jasper, at least that the secrecy was lifted at
the request of his company and he could Appelbaum informed about the
activities.

Basis of action by the U.S. government is a federal law on safeguards
for electronic communications from 1986 to advantage. Unlike a regular
search warrant, the authorities of the arrangement in question does not
present concrete evidence, but demonstrate only probable cause.
Investigators is possible on the basis of the law to access information
from server-based e-mail accounts or cell phone tracking data without
requiring them to obtain a search warrant.

The age of the Internet before the law came into force (Electronic
Communications Privacy Act, ECPA) is not without controversy in the
United States. The scheme should allow the citizens of that time
emerging electronic communication the same protection from arbitrary
access by authorities as telephone calls or correspondence. The
technical development has progressed considerably, however. According to
the Wall Street Journal, there are judgments to consider the
constitutionality of the provision in question. A group of well-known IT
companies - including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and eBay -
advertises in Washington for a reform of the ECPA.