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Technology@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Admin of an anarchist Mastodon server raided by FBI, insecure user data gets seized

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Admin of an anarchist Mastodon server raided by FBI, insecure user data gets seized

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Technology@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

An anarchist-oriented Mastodon server has seen one of its admins raided by the FBI. The admin in question was working with an unencrypted backup of the Mastodon server, which was also seized.

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I don’t think it was a cover. They could have just sent a subpoena for the data if it was hosted in the US.

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