http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=977900 By Joseph Brean National Post November 20, 2008 The RCMP will not pursue charges against the Canadian Human Rights Commission over allegations that its investigators hacked an Ottawa woman's wireless internet account to conceal their identity on websites under investigation for hate speech, the National Post has learned. A parallel investigation of the same incident by the Privacy Commissioner remains ongoing. The complaint arose in March at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal hate speech prosecution of Marc Lemire, webmaster of freedomsite.org, when his legal team brought a subpoena against internet service provider Bell Canada. They were seeking the identity of whoever logged on to the neo-Nazi website stormfront.org under the name "Jadewarr" in December, 2006, just as bloggers were using technical data to reveal "Jadewarr" as the online pseudonym of Dean Steacy, a lead hate speech investigator at the CHRC. Mr. Steacy later acknowledged this under oath. In his testimony, Alain Monfette, director of Bell Canada's law enforcement support team, read out the name and address of a woman, coincidentally a Bell Canada employee, whose computer IP address matched that of Jadewarr at the time in question, according to the Florida-based owner of stormfront.org, Don Black. Neither the CHRC lawyers nor Mr. Lemire's team had ever heard of her. She has no connection to CHRC investigators, but she did have a laptop computer with a wireless connection, and the address Mr. Monfette gave for her apartment in downtown Ottawa is near the CHRC offices. This led to speculation that CHRC staff were illegally using an innocent woman's internet account to hide behind her identity when investigating target websites, a claim Mr. Lemire made in a formal complaint to police, while also posting detailed photographs and schematics of her apartment building. That investigation is now concluded without charges. [...] ______________________________________________ Visit the InfoSec News Security Bookstore Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.orgReceived on Fri Nov 21 2008 - 00:20:41 PST
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