Wikileaks Releases Docs Before Trial of TPB Founder Warg 70
Pirate Bay Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is to be tried starting tomorrow in Sweden, after his indictment last month for computer hacking and fraud. Wikileaks has released several documents related to his detention and the associated charges.
From the summary of this material: "This material includes inter alia the interrogations with GSW and his co-accused, internal correspondence from the Swedish Foreign Minister and the Swedish embassy in Cambodia, damage assessment reports by the companies and the authorities concerned, and correspondence between GSW and Kristina Svartholm and the Swedish prison authorities. The material is formally public, but the Swedish prosecution authority has refused to provide the documents in digital format. Photocopying this volume of paper costs around £350."
Notable is the refusal of Warg's request to obtain a graphing calculator while in prison.
Of course (Score:5, Funny)
With a graphing calculator he'd be able to properly plot the trajectory of his prison escape cannon.
Re:a graphing calculator these days... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:a graphing calculator these days... (Score:5, Funny)
I dont know about prisons in Sweden but here in the UK they get access to games consoles (and France appears Xbox exclusive), satellite TV and more so I fail to see the harm in a calculator even if it was designed to be user hackable.
They have that in American Prisons too; Keeps the maladjusted from harming society without cutting them off completely -- Except, they don't call them "prisons", they call them "parent's basements" here.
If you've ever seen an dispute between basement dwellers, you'd know full well the danger of adding graphing calculators to the mix...
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