Technology • 11 months 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

Technology • 11 months 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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5•11 months ago
oddly enough i presumed this was how mastodon did DMs, i hope they can get E2E in the apps ASAP
- @maegul
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  6•11 months ago
  And that’s part of the problem, they’re easily mistaken for something better. Either they shouldn’t be there or done at least semi-properly.

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