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Although the details of the gov's investigation and harassment of Jake are largely shrouded in secrecy, his harassment at the border began right after giving a
by csoghoian 14y ago
Although the details of the gov's investigation and harassment of Jake are largely shrouded in secrecy, his harassment at the border began right after giving a keynote at HOPE 2010 in place of Julian Assange, as the only US citizen identified in the media as a member of the Wikileaks team.
Although I think what the US government has done to Jake is quite clearly a disgusting abuse of power, let us not kid ourselves by somehow believing that the state has gone after him because he has publicly advocated for the use of strong crypto.
- lawnchair_larry 14y agoWhat about moxie?
- pyre 14y agoIIRC, moxie said at some point that he was being harassed because he was a contact on Jake's phone which was confiscated by the US government at some point, so now he's associated with him.
- yakiv 14y agoI don't really know anything about this story, but do you have any guesses as to why they did go after him?
- pyre 14y ago| his harassment at the border began right after | giving a keynote at HOPE 2010 in place of Julian | Assange | the only US citizen identified in the media as | a member of the Wikileaks team. I'm thinking that these two pieces of information are part of it.
- rdl 14y agoHowever, Phil Z did get harassed over strong crypto, but that was in the bad old days.
- plaguuuuuu 14y agoInteresting side note Assange developed part of Truecrypt if I recall correctly.
- EwanToo 14y agoHe was one of the developers of Rubberhose - a similar, earlier, tool to Truecrypt, not Truecrypt itself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose_%28file_system%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose_%28file_system%29