"Do you trust anarchists with your data?"
Yes, more than tech billionaires.
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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Exactly, because the FBI raided his house in an unrelated case and happened to stumble upon the data. Meaning they needed to do work and effort to get that stuff. Meamwhile all the big companies are handing that shit out left and right.
Is this really a big deal though? Most of the data they'll have is publicly available data from other federated instances. The few users that are local might have some data on the server, but that's literally just login details and maybe an email address or Matrix user ID.
Meanwhile, Meta and Twitter try to scrape every bit of info they can from you, from all across the web.
Edit: after actually reading the article I see it includes DM content as well. This could maybe be an issue, but again if you want privacy you shouldn't be communicating on that platform.
Yeah I haven't used dms here but mastodon at least makes it pretty clear that it isn't encrypted. If you want something secure use matrix or something like that.
Well... That's not ideal.
Doesn't say why they were arrested though.
Also be aware that all hosting providers receive warrants and court orders for data and wiretaps all of the time. As long as it's a valid order they will comply. They're not going to even look into the case or merits or take on a legally battle with the government for you $10 per month.
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