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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (2023)<blockquote>In May [2023], Mastodon server Kolektiva.social was compromised when one of the server’s admins had their home raided by the FBI for unrelated charges. All of their electronics, including a backup of the instance database, were seized.It’s a chillingly familiar story which should serve as a reminder for the hosts, users, and developers of decentralized platforms: if you care about privacy, you have to do the work to protect it. We have a chance to do better from the start in the fediverse, so let’s take it. ...</blockquote><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/fbi-seizure-mastodon-server-wakeup-call-fediverse-users-and-hosts-protect-their" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/fbi-seizure-mastodon-server-wakeup-call-fediverse-users-and-hosts-protect-their</a>HN discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434600" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434600</a>This is an issue that's troubled me since joining the Fediverse in 2016, and as one of the people heavily involved in the "Plexodus" diaspora from the late unlamented <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/GooglePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GooglePlus</a>. Whilst large commercial providers have their failure points concerning privacy and law enforcement, they've also often stood up to over-broad attempts to surveil peoples' online activity. Small instances on distributed systems often run as hobbies or very small-scale subscription / donation-based operations might avoid the roving eye of such efforts, but also lack resources, knowledge, and procedures for how to respond when such seizures occur. As the EFF notes, Kolektiva failed to alert its members (and remote contacts) until months after the FBI raid.The EFF does have a promising guide to legal rights and considerations specifically tailored at the Fediverse: "User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer" <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer</a><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/KolektivaSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KolektivaSocial</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Kolektiva" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kolektiva</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/EFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EFF</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/ElectronicFrontierFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectronicFrontierFoundation</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/CyberRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CyberRights</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FBI</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/OnlineRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnlineRights</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/JacksonGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JacksonGames</a>Edit: This is a 2023 story.

Maddler :sarcasm: :antifa:So <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/DrewHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DrewHarris</a> is now using their inability to manage and prevent <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Dublin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Dublin</a> riotsm, and more in general the rise of right wing groups,as an excuse to push forward the request for a pervasive use of facial recognition.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#privacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/cyberrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#cyberrights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ireland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#politics</a>

Maddler :sarcasm: :antifa:<a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/24/element_spy_clause_protection/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/24/element_spy_clause_protection/</a><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#uk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/cyberrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#cyberrights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/encrytion" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#encrytion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/onlinesafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#onlinesafety</a>

Maddler :sarcasm: :antifa:Of when lawmakers have not the faintest clue of what they're talking about and try to address a "problem" by creating an even bigger one.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/cryptograhpy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#cryptograhpy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/cyberrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#cyberrights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/mobile" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#mobile</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#security</a><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34p49/uk-proposes-making-sale-possession-of-encrypted-phones-illegal-encrochat-sky" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34p49/uk-proposes-making-sale-possession-of-encrypted-phones-illegal-encrochat-sky</a>

Maddler :sarcasm: :antifa:Anyone around that might be interested in working with me on reviving this old <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/cypherpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#cypherpunk</a> project of mine? :) It used to be a blog, mostly, about cryptography, digital rights. That's been parked for quite a few years.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/cryprtography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#cryprtography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/cyberrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#cyberrights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/digitalrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#digitalrights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#privacy</a>

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