A man who launched "Pirate Party" as a result of being fired twice as a result of being marked as FBI on suspicion of "Wikileaks Collaborator"

ByKate Haskell

It is charged with exposing many confidential documents to exposure site · WikileaksChelsea ManningIn relation to Mr., there was a man who was unexpectedly considered to cooperate with Wikileaks, and a man who was fired of the government institute laboratory which was the work place. This incident triggered men to emigrate to Iceland and eventuallyPirate partyJason Scott Katz, his principal, talks to the Motherboard about the devastating life that he has worked on to create.

The Man Who Made the Mistake of Trying to Help Wikileaks - Motherboard
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/jason-katz-wikileaks


Mr. Katz who was 28 years old in 2009 worked as a system administrator at government related institutions. It was a few months before Mr. Manning's exposure occurred, and in general it was not even known that Wikileaks existed, but Mr. Katz said at the workplace chat room, "About confidentiality and transparency of the government , I will support Julian Assanji, the founder of Wikileaks. "He said he was interacting with a colleague in a chat. One day, the colleague asked for help "I want to open a password-protected file" in the chat room, Mr. Katz said that he downloaded a password "z.zip" file called "b.zip".

Everyone in the chat room used pseudonyms, and their colleagues seemed not to ask Katz for help alone. Mr. Katz does not know his colleague's real name, and he does not know whether there was a direct connection with Wikileaks. According to Mr. Katz, he attempted to decrypt the file "It was tickled by the hacker spirit", but he said that even though using the password cracking tool I downloaded at that time, I could not open the file is.

A few months later, Wikileaks released a video titled "Collateral Murder". This is the first confidential document revealed by Mr. Manning, and in 2007 the US military helicopter attacked in Iraq, two local children injured, two Reuters reporters who were in the field with the father There was a shocking scene that was killed. It seems that this video was not leaked from the file downloaded by Mr. Katz, but Katz says he did not care about the contents of the downloaded file when the exposure of Wikileaks began.

ByChristine und Hagen Graf

Mr. Manning was later arrested as having caused a massive amount of confidential documents from the US military, but from the witness of the government side in the military trial, "Because a person called Jason Katz helps Wikileaks, I tried to decrypt the password "and he said that he gave a testimony. As a result, Mr. Katz will face the inquiry for the investigation of Wikileaks exposure cases, and the investigator discovered the file downloaded from the computer of Mr. Katz and the password cracking tool. Although Mr. Katz was never arrested, the government agency was to be dismissed for the reason of "inappropriate use of computer".

Mr. Katz has since graduated from September 2010 as a system administrator at Tower Research Capital, a hedge fund company in New York. When Mr. Katz who got tired of the job entered in 2011, seeing job change information, I can see the job information of Iceland startup · Videntifier. Mr. Katz, who had been interested in Iceland for a long time, worked on developing fingerprint authentication systems and so on, considering this as a "free travel opportunity", headed to Iceland in February 2011 We decided to adopt it.

Mr. Katts who returned to the USA told Tower Research Capital that he will retire and told me that he will be able to work for several months until Iceland's departure. Then it was about two weeks from the retirement declaration, and FBI appeared in the workplace. FBI is considered to have watched Mr. Kutz from the military trial in July 2010, and since Wikileaks was based in Iceland at the time of 2010, Mr. Katts was suspicious of traveling to Iceland It seems that turned his eyes. Mr. Katz received an investigation from FBI on the exposure of Wikileaks and said he had been searched for homes to his family and his girlfriend's family home.

ByAndré Gustavo Stumpf

Mr. Katz was also asked for testimony at the indictment jury, but he declined to set up a lawyer. Mr. Katts who returned to Tower Research Capital after the interrogation has been dismissed from the company. Mr. Katz who lost his job earlier decided to proceed with Iceland immigration procedures, but in visa application to Iceland it was necessary to pass the FBI background check. Mr. Katz claiming innocence said that she was able to apply for visa in a few months after sending a fingerprint to the FBI in suspicion.

Ultimately Mr. Katz moved to Iceland in about February 2012, but in eight months after that Mr. Katz was a politician of Iceland, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, former collaborator of WikiLeaks, and supporters of WikiLeaks It is said that he worked hard to establish the Pirate Party. "I do not regret my actions because these events have brought me to an interesting trip.If you do the past you will do the same things.If you do not do the same thing, We will not have a pirate party in Iceland, "Katz said.