EFF appeals secret demands for Twitter communications

[nix]

Alexandria, VA - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today appealed a ruling that the government can collect the private records of three Twitter users as part of its investigation related to WikiLeaks. The ruling further held that the users cannot learn which other Internet companies were ordered to turn over information about them to the government. EFF and the ACLU are challenging the ruling on behalf of Birgitta Jonsdottir, an Icelandic parliamentarian who is appealing jointly with fellow Twitter users Jacob Appelbaum and Rop Gonggrijp.

The secret government demands for information about the subscribers' communications came to light only because Twitter took steps to ensure its customers were notified and had the opportunity to respond. The ACLU and EFF have also asked the court to make public any similar orders to any other companies.

https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2011/03/25

[Baserk]

I guess every Dutch citizen here on WildersSecurity can vouch for Rob Gonggrijp.
Founder of Hack-tic magazine in 1989, co-founder of 1st Dutch ISP for citizens XS4ALL, developer of the Cryptophone, member of the Dutch 'this-is-clearly-a-not-so-unhackable-electronic-voting-machine' group etc. (Wikipedia link)

Those after his Twitter info, know well enough that they won't find anything.
So imao this whole 'legal battle' is nothing more than a futile attempt into scaring off any future Wikileaks(-like) participants.

[nix]

Originally Posted by Baserk

I guess every Dutch citizen here on WildersSecurity can vouch for Rob Gonggrijp. Founder of Hack-tic magazine in 1989, co-founder of 1st Dutch ISP for citizens XS4ALL, developer of the Cryptophone, member of the Dutch 'this-is-clearly-a-not-so-unhackable-electronic-voting-machine' group etc. (Wikipedia link)

Thanks for the link regarding Rob Gonggrijp. I think many people didn't realize he was the person named in the subpoena. Here's Glenn Greenwald's background on Jacob Appelbaum:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/gl...011/01/10/fear

It is clear that the Twitter subpoena is meant as a message, though it appears to be a singularly ineffective one, considering the target audience.

[CloneRanger]

If i was going to use something like Twitter , which i don't, for posting "sensitive" etc stuff i would use a Proxy. Quite why other people don't ?

Also i wouldn't use my real name or post identifying material

If more people were a bit more savvy about such things they wouldn't allow themselves to be open to investigation etc.

Having said that, some of the people mentioned must know how to be Anon etc, so why weren't they ?