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I don’t know who expected the fediverse to be the most secure and private network of the world.
It’s a “independent” and open source social media platform. A better place to be than corporate social media. That’s it.
I wouldn’t even be surprised if it came out the FBI was hosting fediverse servers aimed at some crime. Like a instance dedicated to digital piracy.
This reminds me that they finance the Tor project (onion browser).
There’s some fediverse that we can call it “the most secure and private” network. Not all of them, but yes… the fallacy of pop culture understanding the fediverse hype by many people is too much. I agree…
I don’t think this is a wakeup call to anyone tbh. Servers are constantly getting seized by government authorities. Anyone who is worried about this already knows the risks and have likely vetted their instance.
I think the we should use fediverse with the expectations we had using the internet of old: Don’t post anything you want to keep secret, and anything you put online is potentially permanent.
I was always a little skeevy towards Facebook and other major social media sites when everyone was encouraged to use real names, post personal details, and share real photos of themselves and friends. Hell I still don’t get how people here share everything from faces to nudes and not expect their privacy to be compromised.
An entire generation has grown up not expecting privacy. It’s their normal.
Big tech companies’ wet dream
For some reason my entire account is being mass downvoted, anyone else have this happen before?
Encrypted file systems requiring secrets at mount time can make seizing physical servers harder. It’s more difficult with the cloud hosters, since these likely have an API for law enforcement.
Well, I don’t really see the headline in it, tbh. That is, yeah of course servers can be seized? That’s kinda a given?
It doesn’t really matter what software they run in regards to whether they can be seized or not.
The points made in the article are that server admins should have policies regarding privacy and data retention, that users should be aware of this possibility, and that developers should ensure more of the users’ data is encrypted at all times.
They should also be held accountable and not turn a blind eye to illegal behaviour on their server. If someone uses their server to organise a terrorist attack, they’ve facilitated it.
Ah the age old bullshit.
“Hey, I kinda care about my rights–”
“FUCK YOU, YOU’RE AIDING TERRORISTS AND PEDOPHILES”
I mean, that’s not even remotely related to the scenario in the article. It wasn’t even related to the server. The admin was raided for an entirely different reason.
Yes, if you commit crimes you should be held responsible. No one said otherwise at any point. So, I guess thanks captain obvious?
