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A pity he is not in Sweden. Just four months ago a number of journalists from a tech news site accessed an unprotected medical server as part of verifying the c

by belorn 7y ago

A pity he is not in Sweden. Just four months ago a number of journalists from a tech news site accessed an unprotected medical server as part of verifying the claim that it was indeed unprotected. 2.7 million patient calls to Swedish healthcare hotline left unprotected online (https://thenextweb.com/eu/2019/02/18/2-7-million-patient-calls-to-swedish-healthcare-hotline-left-unprotected-online/ https://thenextweb.com/eu/2019/02/18/2-7-million-patient-cal...). The journalists downloaded one audio file during verification. The company filed a police complaint and claimed the journalists unlawfully accessed a computer without authorization, conspired to access a computer without authorization, and access with the intention to disclose patient confidential information (https://www.svt.se/nyheter/medhelp-anmaler-computer-sweden https://www.svt.se/nyheter/medhelp-anmaler-computer-sweden). I strongly doubt it will go anywhere or any of the journalists will see a day in prison.

efdee 7y ago
I don't think Sweden would extend the same courtesy to Assange.
- duxup 7y ago
  The law in Sweden is pretty clear, they don't extradite for espionage / political crimes.
  - efdee 7y ago
    You'd be surprised how easily such things change.
techntoke 7y ago
Much different than attempting to hack a password protected computer to get confidential government data and use it for undisclosed purposes.
- hauk66 7y ago
  >undisclosed purposes When your business card reads "wikileaks" I think the parties involved have a decent idea of what they where doing. I can see how the attempt might be viewed as a hostile act towards the Americans as a "military entity" but i also strongly belive that Wikileaks has done amazing work with their dumps. If he wants to try and brute a few encryptions to support wikileaks i dont really mind quite frankly. The amount of shit we (europeans++) take from the American tech/some enterprises on behalf of the us goverment i legitimatly feel that the citisens that have been illegal spied on by a foreign goverment that could not possibly care less about protecting their fundemental privacy rights, lose their privilige to complain when citizens of said foreign nations with "nobel" causes tries to fuck them back. Im sorry but with the revelations of the past decade my strong support of the status quo in regards to American dominance has withered some. There is a point where i just want to tell the American military machine to "ta deg en bolle" (Norwegian for its time to shut the fuck up and deal with it) /end of anti-America rant

by belorn 7y ago

efdee 7y ago

I don't think Sweden would extend the same courtesy to Assange.

duxup 7y ago
The law in Sweden is pretty clear, they don't extradite for espionage / political crimes.
- efdee 7y ago
  You'd be surprised how easily such things change.

techntoke 7y ago

Much different than attempting to hack a password protected computer to get confidential government data and use it for undisclosed purposes.

hauk66 7y ago
>undisclosed purposes When your business card reads "wikileaks" I think the parties involved have a decent idea of what they where doing. I can see how the attempt might be viewed as a hostile act towards the Americans as a "military entity" but i also strongly belive that Wikileaks has done amazing work with their dumps. If he wants to try and brute a few encryptions to support wikileaks i dont really mind quite frankly. The amount of shit we (europeans++) take from the American tech/some enterprises on behalf of the us goverment i legitimatly feel that the citisens that have been illegal spied on by a foreign goverment that could not possibly care less about protecting their fundemental privacy rights, lose their privilige to complain when citizens of said foreign nations with "nobel" causes tries to fuck them back. Im sorry but with the revelations of the past decade my strong support of the status quo in regards to American dominance has withered some. There is a point where i just want to tell the American military machine to "ta deg en bolle" (Norwegian for its time to shut the fuck up and deal with it) /end of anti-America rant