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posted by martyb on Saturday July 11 2020, @04:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the street-creds dept.

Cops Seize Server That Hosted BlueLeaks, DDoSecrets Says

Cops Seize Server that Hosted BlueLeaks, DDoSecrets Says:

Authorities in Germany have seized a server used by the organization that published a trove of US police internal documents commonly known as BlueLeaks, according to the organization's founder.

On Tuesday, Emma Best, the founder of Distributed Denial of Secrets or DDoSecrets, a WikiLeaks-like website that has published the police data, said that prosecutors in the German town of Zwickau seized the organization's "primary public download server."

"We are working to obtain additional information, but presume it is [regarding] #BlueLeaks," Best added on Twitter. "The server was used ONLY to distribute data to the public. It had no contact with sources and was involved in nothing more than enlightening the public through journalistic publishing."

Best shared a screenshot of the email they received from DDoSecrets' hosting provider informing of the server seizure.

"Your server has been confiscated," the email reads. "Until now we were not allowed to inform you accordingly." The email then notes that the seizing authority was the Department of Public Prosecution Zwickau.

German Authorities Seized the Servers that Hosted BlueLeaks Police Files at the Request of the US Government

German authorities seized the servers that hosted BlueLeaks police files at the request of the US government:

The site that hosted hundreds of thousands of leaked police files — dubbed BlueLeaks — has been taken offline after its servers were confiscated by German authorities acting at the request of the US government.

[...] It's not clear what legal grounds the US has to take the server offline. Hacking the government is a crime, but the Supreme Court has upheld the right of journalists to publish leaked documents as long as they weren't involved in their theft. DDoSecrets maintains that it's a publisher without any ties to the hacker who first obtained the BlueLeaks files.

A spokesperson for the Zwickau prosecutor's office told the German outlet Zeit Online [in German] that they were aware DDoSecrets is a journalistic project, but declined to provide any further information.

Previously: "BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers"


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  • (Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Sunday July 12 2020, @04:38PM (1 child)

    by jmichaelhudsondotnet (8122) on Sunday July 12 2020, @04:38PM (#1019889) Journal

    This story is at the top of worldnews on reddit, so you can assume the entirety of this is a psy op, including the avatar known as "emma".

    Fact: You cannot be a headline on reddit without being a part of a psychological operation on the public.

    So 250 gb? who got the full copy in time? How can this ever be verified now? How does this help any anti-police agenda actually? Who is there to even read the leaks now? The free speech community cant even get assange out of jail, or verify WL social media accounts.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 12 2020, @05:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 12 2020, @05:47PM (#1019919)

    No gurls allowed.