Germany 掴むs server hosting pilfered US police とじ込み/提出するs

BOSTON (AP) - At the 命令 of the U.S. 政府, German 当局 have 掴むd a computer server that hosted a 抱擁する (武器などの)隠匿場所 of とじ込み/提出するs from 得点する/非難する/20s of U.S. 連邦の, 明言する/公表する and 地元の 法律 施行 機関s 得るd in a Houston data 違反 last month.

The server was 存在 used by a WikiLeaks-like data transparency 集団の/共同の called 分配するd 否定 of Secrets to 株 文書s - many tagged "For 公式の/役人 Use Only" - that shed light on U.S. police practices.

The data, dating 支援する to 1996, 含む emails, 音声部の and ビデオ とじ込み/提出するs and police and 連邦検察局 知能 報告(する)/憶測s. DDoSecrets 創立者 Emma Best said the data, dubbed "BlueLeaks," comes from more than 200 機関s. It has been stripped of 言及/関連s to 性の 強襲,強姦 事例/患者s and 言及/関連s to children, but 指名するs, phone numbers and emails of police officers were not redacted, said Best, who uses they/their pronouns.

Best said that DDoSecrets 得るd the data from an outside individual who sympathized with 全国的な 抗議するs against police 殺人,大当りs of 非武装の 黒人/ボイコット people. Some of the とじ込み/提出するs 申し込む/申し出 insights into the police 返答 to those 抗議するs, they said.

While 切り開く/タクシー/不正アクセスing into computers and stealing data is a 連邦の 罪,犯罪, U.S. 法廷,裁判所s have 終始一貫して 支配するd that 新聞記者/雑誌記者s may publish stolen 文書s as long as they are not 伴う/関わるd in their 窃盗. DDoSecrets says it is a journalistic organization that 株 文書s in the public 利益/興味.

The 文書s (機の)カム to light 経由で a 違反 of Houston web-design company Netsential, which hosts portals for 法律 施行 機関s and "fusion 中心s," 明言する/公表する-run 操作/手術s created after the 9/11 attacks to 株 脅し 知能 with 地元の and 明言する/公表する police and 私的な-部門 partners.

FILE - In this May 31, 2020, file photo, protesters march away from the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn. German authorities, acting at the behest of the U.S. government, have seized a computer server that hosted a huge cache of files from U.S. federal, state and local law enforcement agencies obtained in a Houston data breach last month. The publisher, a transparency collective called Distributed Denial of Secrets, said it got the documents from an outside individual who sympathizes with nationwide protests against police killings of unarmed Black people. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

FILE - In this May 31, 2020, とじ込み/提出する photo, 抗議する人s march away from the 明言する/公表する (ワシントンの)連邦議会議事堂 in St. Paul, Minn. German 当局, 事実上の/代理 at the 命令 of the U.S. 政府, have 掴むd a computer server that hosted a 抱擁する (武器などの)隠匿場所 of とじ込み/提出するs from U.S. 連邦の, 明言する/公表する and 地元の 法律 施行 機関s 得るd in a Houston data 違反 last month. The publisher, a transparency 集団の/共同の called 分配するd 否定 of Secrets, said it got the 文書s from an outside individual who sympathizes with natio nwide 抗議するs against police 殺人,大当りs of 非武装の 黒人/ボイコット people. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, とじ込み/提出する)

The 検察官,検事´s office in Zwickau, a German city 近づく the Czech 国境, said in an emailed 声明 Wednesday that the server was 押収するd July 3 in the town of Falkenstein に引き続いて a request from U.S. 当局.

The 連邦検察局 拒絶する/低下するd to comment. A U.S. 大使館 spokesperson in Berlin did not 答える/応じる to phone calls and emails 捜し出すing comment.

The Zwickau 検察官,検事s´ 声明 said it would be up to German judicial 当局 to decide whether to 手渡す the server over to U.S. 当局. It said it would not 公表する/暴露する the 推論する/理由 for the U.S. request. Neither would a 代表者/国会議員 of Hetzner Online, the company that hosted the server.

Best said they assume the seizure was 関係のある to the 地位,任命するing of the BlueLeaks 文書s. They said the とじ込み/提出するs show "a lot of things that are 完全に 合法的な and normal and horrifying," 含むing police 監視 and police 知能 of 疑わしい origin. Best said 非,不,無 were 分類するd.

The 文書 捨てる helps expose "the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs´ overdeveloped police 知能 apparatus," said Brendan McQuade, a criminology professor at the University of Southern Maine who has 見解(をとる)d the 文書s. The とじ込み/提出するs do not 含む high-level 知能 but 供給する a window into the 関係 between 法律 施行 at all levels, he said - one that he believes the 連邦検察局 doesn´t want the public to see lest it "追加する more 燃料 to the 抗議するs" against police brutality and 人種差別主義 in policing.

Best said the とじ込み/提出するs remain 公然と accessible through more 複雑にするd means such as BitTorrent and the Tor 網状組織, both of which 複雑にする 検閲 成果/努力s. Best said the organization is now 再構築するing its 組織/基盤/下部構造 for public 接近. "All they cost us is time," they said.

すぐに after DDoSecrets 地位,任命するd the data, Twitter 永久的に 一時停止するd the organization´s account for publishing links and images from the collection, 特記する/引用するing a 禁止(する) on the p osting of 切り開く/タクシー/不正アクセスd 構成要素.

One U.S. 法律 施行 機関 影響する/感情d by the 違反 is the Iowa 法律 施行 学院. Its director, Judy Bradshaw, told The Associated 圧力(をかける) the 違反 明らかにする/漏らすd 指名するs of students in 学院 courses and their drivers licenses, but no 財政上の (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状).

She said Netsential had 得点する/非難する/20s of (弁護士の)依頼人s in 法律 施行, where it was a strong niche provider. Netsential itself 確認するd the 違反 in an undated 声明 on its 明らかにする-bones website and said it was 補助装置ing the 調査 but would 供給する no その上の (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) "予定 to the sensitivity of (弁護士の)依頼人 (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状)."

(n)役員/(a)執行力のあるs of the 国家の Fusion 中心s 協会 did not 答える/応じる to emails and phone calls 捜し出すing comment on whether any 極度の慎重さを要する 調査s may have been 妥協d by the 違反. But Maine 明言する/公表する Police said in a 声明 on June 26 that the 連邦検察局 was 調査/捜査するing and that 影響する/感情d 公式発表s may "含む/封じ込める identifying (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状), such as 十分な 指名する and date of birth of people under 調査 by other 法律 施行 機関s." It said they "may also 伴う/関わる individuals 手配中の,お尋ね者 for 犯罪の activity."

DDoSecrets was created in late 2018 by Best, a 新聞記者/雑誌記者 専攻するing in freedom-of-(警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) 嘆願(書)s. It has worked on さまざまな 調査s with 設立するd マスコミ organizations 含むing the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel and the U.S. news organization McClatchy.

Previous DDoSecrets 解放(する)s 含む data on 沖合いの/海外の Bahamas accounts used as 税金 港/避難所s, とじ込み/提出するs 切り開く/タクシー/不正アクセスd from Chilean police and data from a British provider of 沖合いの/海外の 財政上の services that has drawn comparisons, on a smaller 規模, to the 2016 パナマ Papers 漏れる.

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