Thread by @mis2centavos

How did I end up being raided, handcuffed and detained by the @PFAOficial without having done anything illegal? Please follow this thread. 👇

First of all: the accusation. In august 2019 someone leaked about 770 GB of sensitive files from the @PFAOficial. So, they started an investigation and pointed to people that "possibly had some relationship with" (sic) a previous leak from 2017. #TheUsualSuspects

¿Me having something to do with the 2017 @PFAOficial and @MinSeg leak? Yes, as a WITNESS, not as a SUSPECT (See pages 5-9: ia801400.us.archive.org/20/items/ampli…). But the Justice didn't check, and authorized the Police to investigate me).

@PFAOficial @MinSeg So, the @PFAOficial was given a blank check for investigating me. Let's see what they did. 👇

First of all: "cyber patrolling" (yes, the @PFAOficial has a "division of cyberpatrolling", I'm not kidding). Basically, they took screenshots of virtually every tweet I sent and put in in a report (see: ia801009.us.archive.org/28/items/ciber…).

@PFAOficial Then the @PFAOficial asked my cell phone provider (@PersonalAr) for my phone location over the last two months, and also the record of incoming/outgoing calls and data transfer. They also asked for the IMEIs associated with my phone line.

Once the Police got my phone IMEI, they asked the other Argentinian cell phone providers for any line number associated with it (in case I could have been using another SIM card on the same device).

Then, the @PFAOficial asked @WhatsApp for my account data. Including the IP addresses used for every connection over the last 4 months (with timestamps).

@PFAOficial @WhatsApp In Buenos Aires and other cities of Argentina, we use an RFID card called @TarjetaSUBEok for public transportation services. And the Police wanted to know where we had traveled, me and a person related to me, over the last year.

(Sorry guys, I don' have any SUBE card registered)

@PFAOficial @WhatsApp @TarjetaSUBEok Then, some "classic surveillance", like installing cameras pointing to the house where my children live. (¿Remember the location information from the cell phone? They knew I wasn't there since a few months).

More "classic surveillance": following me on the street (actually, by mistake, follow someone that wasn't me) and take pictures.

For other suspects (not me), the Police also accessed the pictures taken by ATMs on every transaction. (It's nice to know that when you extract cash o make something on an ATM a nice picture of you is stored bound to that transaction.)

Let's go back to the "cyberpatrolling". The @PFAOficial also made a report informing "suspicious things" shown through my Tweets. Their point is that I know things that the supposed attacked also knows. 👇

They're talking about "advanced hacking knowledge" like...

- Setting up servers with @digitalocean, and DNS names with @GoDaddy.
- Having a @PersonalAr cell phone.
- Using @nginx + php-fpm (and having it updated)

@digitalocean @GoDaddy @PersonalAr @nginx And also...

- Using Ubuntu.
- Using Chromium and Firefox.
- Suggesting someone start programming using Python.
- Knowing the old bug on Java's "binary search" implementation.

@digitalocean @GoDaddy @PersonalAr @nginx In short, in Argentina, having any technical knowledge about computers may be a cause for suspicion. But you can also become a suspect just by tweeting about information security and data breaches.

@digitalocean @GoDaddy @PersonalAr @nginx But what can turn you *really* into a suspect, is tweeting against the electronic voting system promoted by the Argentinian government. No doubt about it.

Finally, the @PFAOficial found a way of linking me to two other suspects of the leak: I live in the same province as one of them (as other about 3 million people) and I traveled for 1 day (as an election observer) to the same city where lives another one. Solid rock evidence.

@PFAOficial Also from the same @PFAOficial report: it looks like corporal Landajo doesn't like kisses nor Saint Valentine greetings.

@PFAOficial Some other hints allegedly link me to the criminal investigation: who I respond to or retweet, what are my opinions about the Government or the Police, etc. You can read the full report (in Spanish) here: archive.org/download/ciber…

@PFAOficial What's the conclusion of that report? That my home should be raided and my computers and storage devices should be seized. Maybe poking on it, they could find something that *really* links me to the leak.

@PFAOficial The Justice had no problem with that, and a few days later I was awakened at 6 am by @PFAOficial officials. Before they left my home with my computers, they thought it could be a good idea to put me handcuffs and take me with them just to take my fingerprints to be sure who I am.

@PFAOficial 6 hours later (and 15 ink impressions of every fingerprint) the Police released me. This is a picture taken by a friend that was waiting for me at the Police Station.

@PFAOficial 50 days later... I am waiting for justice to give me some answer after sending 4 notes asking to give me my computers back *untouched*, for there is no reason to continue violating my rights. They (the justice and de Police) remain silent by now.

The notes sent by me to the justice (in Spanish):

October 16: archive.org/download/prese…
October 18: archive.org/download/ampli…
October 29: archive.org/download/ampli…
November 6: ia601403.us.archive.org/12/items/prese…

I received no response yet.

Oh, are you thinking about why all this happened? Look at this picture from the 2015 edition of @ekoparty. What have in common @HacKanCuBa, @_joac and me?

The three of us have been researching about the electronic voting system proposed by the Argentine government. And all three of us have been charged and then raided by the police. (The cases for @HacKanCuBa and @_joac have been dismissed already).