وكما يشرح تيجتوج في مدوّنة لارفاتوس بروديو:
Fairfax journalist Ben Grubb was briefly arrested by Queensland Police
yesterday after writing an article about an internet security expert who
gave a conference slideshow presentation on the ease of bypassing
Facebook’s privacy controls to obtain a user’s photographs without a
username or password. The security expert had allegedly sent Grubb
copies of some of the “private” Facebook images that he had accessed.
لم يكن كريس بالمر فقط مصدوماً من تيكنولوجي سبيكتاتور من أفعال الشرطة بل:
The transcript of Grubb’s conversation with the Queensland Police officers gives real insight into why journalists should be concerned about the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act, and should as a matter of practice encrypt any source data on the devices they use for work.
تكشف النسخة الأصلية للحديث الذي دار بين جراب وظباط شرطة كوينزلاند الستار عن السبب الذي يثير حفيظة الصحفيين حول القوانين التي تحدد صلاحيات الشرطة التي تمكنهم من فك شفرة أي مصدر للمعلوملت على الأجهزة التي يستخدمونها.
It also shows the real lack of technology knowledge within the police
force. At one point during the questioning one of the officers asked
Grubb to pardon his “lack of technology” and after being asked a range
of technical questions about how Facebook works, Grubb was then left to
essentially tell the officer it was not up to him to make his case for
him.
يعمل آدم جاردنر كاستشاري في مجال المعلومات والمدوّنات في تي جي إف. وكان أحد الحاضرين في المؤتمر الذي عرضت فيه الصور، وقد تأمل بعد ذلك في القضايا القانونية والأخلاقية المتعلقة بذلك:
Was what Christian did ethical? In my mind, no.Was it legal? Probably not.
Did QPS intimidate Ben Grubb? It would seem so to me.
Should Ben Grubb have a case to answer to police? To me, it seems like QPS are shooting the messenger.
Can police just sieze someones iPad like that? They seem to think so.
هل كان قانوني؟ ربما لا؟
هل أرهبت شرطة كوينزلاند بن جراب؟ يبدو لي ذلك.
هل يجب على بن جراب أن يرد على الإتهامات الموجهة له من الشرطة؟ يبدو لي أن الشرطة تطلق النار على المبّلغ بدلا من الجاني الحقيقي.
هل يمكن للشرطة أن تتحفظ على الآي باد الخاص بشخص بهذه السهولة؟ إنهم يعتقدوا ذلك.
@QPSmedia: Police can legally seize material which may be evidence of a crime. It will be returned as soon as we can do so.
Queensland police need to learn how technology works before it becomes police policy to arrest everyone on the Internet when something goes wrong.
وسرعان ما حظت القصة على الإهتمام العالمي في المدوّنات. وينشر بول ساورز في مدونة تي كي دابليو (الشبكة الجديدة) من المملكة المتحدة:
This case may set a precedent in terms of what constitutes illegal activity online. Althought Grubb isn’t likely to face any further reprimands for receiving the photos, this case does raise some big questions on how the police will handle such activity in the future. Many people have been prosecuted for downloading music illegally, and it seems that procuring images without permission from Facebook is very much in the same ballpark.
This incident raises questions relating to the scope of Australia’s cybercrime legislation, the questionable judgment of the Queensland Police in deciding to pursue the journalist who reported the story (and not as yet the researcher who managed to obtain access to the private photos), and whether Australia’s laws provide proper safeguards for journalists.
Heinrich supposedly pulled this stunt, to demonstrate that even with the highest security settings, Facebook can still be infiltrated by those who know how.
رد بن جراب الإعلامي والملف المسموع للتحفظ على جهاز الآيباد الخاص به متوفر هنا: قصة جراب: الخصوصية، الأخبار واليد العليا للقانون