Leak of Secret Japanese Police Torture Guide Leads to Nobel Peace Prize
Secret police confession guide leaked
Asahi.com: A disturbing manual on how to extract confessions is the latest damning police secret leaked from the personal computer of an Ehime prefectural police inspector. “Once in the interrogation room, don’t come out until you get the suspect to confess,” reads the manual, one of thousands of files leaked to the Internet….Japan’s … controversial “substitute prison” system, in which police cells are used to detain suspects for questioning after they are arrested and their cases sent to prosecutors….has been under fire at home and abroad as a potential breeding ground for human rights abuses against suspects. Critics say it could lead to false charges and forced confessions….
…The Ehime police files were leaked to the Internet via Winny file-sharing software infected by a virus.
3Yen’s news flash from the future…
JAPANESE OTAKU WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
3Y Network, December 10, 2006,
Oslo, Norway— Social activist “Mr. 47″ Isamu Kaneko, became the first geek to win the Nobel Peace Prize. As a 33-year-old Tokyo University assistant, Dr. Kaneko developed Winny software for file-sharing but he was later arrested ….
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Ok, ok, I’ll stop my giggling and say that the social good of exposing the Japanese police torture manual is a lot more worthy than a few of the other Nobel Peace prizes. And furthermore a geek/otaku Peace Prize is not so farfetched as the press has resently reported that: Game designers aim for Nobel Peace Prize.
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April 17th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
It’s not the technology that is broken here, it’s the law that is broken! Japanese Police arrests a File-Sharing programmer because his software was infected by a virus. The police men who are too dumb to see if they got a virus should be arrested for this!
April 17th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
It’s a travesty of justice that a programmer of totally legal File-Sharing software gets busted but at least his program inadvertantly when hacked by others “busted” the cops systematic torture program.