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He was also approached by two FBI agents at the Defcon conference after his presentation on Saturday afternoon about the Tor Project.
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'Shortly thereafter, two casually dressed men identified themselves as FBI agents and asked to talk to him.
'We'd like to chat for a few minutes,' one of the men said, adding, 'we thought you might not want to.' Appelbaum asked them if they were aware of 'what happened to me,' and one of them replied, 'Yes, that's why we're here.'
'I don't have anything to say,' Appelbaum told them. One of the agents said they were interested in hearing about 'rights being trampled' and said, 'sometimes it's nice to have a conversation to flesh things out.'
Marcia Hofmann, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, was in the room and asked if the agents were at the event in an official capacity or for personal reasons. 'A little of both,' one of them said.
Appelbaum asked when his equipment would be returned, and one of the agents said, 'We aren't involved in that; we have no idea,' and walked away when Appelbaum declined to talk further.
The agents declined to identify themselves to CNET. They said they were attending the conference and declined to talk further.' |
