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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

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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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Is it? As far as I know, identifying data such as IP addresses are not transmitted between instances.
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  The only instance that knows your IP and has your hashed password is the one you signed up on

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