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Twitter user 'amused' by DA's probeDec 30, 2011 (Boston Herald - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- An apparent target of the Suffolk District Attorney's Twitter subpoena -- part of a probe into alleged hacking of Boston police email -- claims to have nothing to do with the case, and finds it entertaining that authorities want the microblogging site to cough up personal information. "Suffice to say it amused me greatly. I won't be losing any sleep over it," the tweeter, who goes by the name GuidoFawkes, told the Herald via email from Wexford, Ireland, last night. "I hadn't even heard of the Occupy Boston crowd until this blew up. I'm a firm believer in the benefits of free enterprise capitalism and don't sympathise with their aims." Superior Court Judge Carol S. Ball yesterday rejected a motion by lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union to kill the subpoena on First Amendment grounds. Peter Krupp, a lawyer working in cooperation with the ACLU of Massachusetts, declined to speak about the ruling, citing the judge's decision to keep the case sealed, but he said he is now "considering his options" in at least appealing the decision to impound the case. In October, the group Anonymous hacked into servers used by the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association and posted online and linked through Twitter members' names, union email addresses and passwords. The Suffolk DA's subpoena asked Twitter for all "available subscriber information" from Dec. 8 to Dec. 13 for accounts pertaining to "GuidoFawkes," "@p0isAn0n," "@OccupyBoston," "#Boston PD" and "#d0xcak3." The district attorney's office had asked Twitter to stay mum about the subpoena, but GuidoFawkes was among the first to post a link to a copy of it. "It is our policy to notify our users about law enforcement and governmental requests for their information, unless we are prevented by law from doing so," Matt Graves of Twitter wrote in an email. [email protected] ___ (c)2011 the Boston Herald Visit the Boston Herald at www.bostonherald.com Distributed by MCT Information Services |