Cops Seize Server That Hosted BlueLeaks, DDoSecrets Says (vice.com) 15
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Authorities in Germany have seized a server used by the organization that published a trove of US police internal documents commonly known as BlueLeaks, according to the organization's founder. On Tuesday, Emma Best, the founder of Distributed Denial of Secrets or DDoSecrets, a WikiLeaks-like website that has published the police data, said that prosecutors in the German town of Zwickau seized the organization's "primary public download server."
"We are working to obtain additional information, but presume it is [regarding] #BlueLeaks," Best added on Twitter. "The server was used ONLY to distribute data to the public. It had no contact with sources and was involved in nothing more than enlightening the public through journalistic publishing." Best shared a screenshot of the email they received from DDoSecrets' hosting provider informing of the server seizure. "Your server has been confiscated," the email reads. "Until now we were not allowed to inform you accordingly." The email then notes that the seizing authority was the Department of Public Prosecution Zwickau. "We're gonna get set up with a new data host and move up our plans to evolve some of our infrastructure," Best told Motherboard. "It's the perfect time for it to fall apart because we were rebuilding it anyway. It's a huge headache and a violates the ideal of press freedom, but we'll survive, even if we have to close Hunter for a time. The equivalent system they mention is blank and unconfigured, and obviously we can't rely on it."
"We are working to obtain additional information, but presume it is [regarding] #BlueLeaks," Best added on Twitter. "The server was used ONLY to distribute data to the public. It had no contact with sources and was involved in nothing more than enlightening the public through journalistic publishing." Best shared a screenshot of the email they received from DDoSecrets' hosting provider informing of the server seizure. "Your server has been confiscated," the email reads. "Until now we were not allowed to inform you accordingly." The email then notes that the seizing authority was the Department of Public Prosecution Zwickau. "We're gonna get set up with a new data host and move up our plans to evolve some of our infrastructure," Best told Motherboard. "It's the perfect time for it to fall apart because we were rebuilding it anyway. It's a huge headache and a violates the ideal of press freedom, but we'll survive, even if we have to close Hunter for a time. The equivalent system they mention is blank and unconfigured, and obviously we can't rely on it."
Next time host it in Switzerland... (Score:4, Informative)
much more fed proof there.
Also, make a torrent of your files, and share the torrent link far and wide.
Can't stop the signal Mal.
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Put it on Tor, on an onion site. Common web browsers are starting to support Tor in their Private mode, like Brave.
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The USA strong armed Switzerland a while ago. Those famous Swiss banks are no longer anonymous or safe. Uncle Sam likes to make an example out of people when you make him look bad.
The more you tighten your grip (Score:4)
It is a torrent. (Score:3, Informative)
That was relatively fast ... (Score:3)
There must be some pretty embarrassing stuff in there, this was a relatively fast seizure.
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gotta take it down before the election. you wouldn't want any pesky facts to mess up the people's propaganda
When neither party supports the public opinion government can be pretty quick and efficient.
That was quick (Score:2)
The fact that they were tracked down and disrupted that quickly does make me wonder whether they're really up to the job.
On the other hand, I'm happy to see they're talking about how meaningless it was. This is 2020; I would hope "seizing a server" is about as significant as seizing the corner mailbox where Joe Kingpin mailed drugs using the USPS.
Links To Torrent (Score:3, Informative)
That means it is gone, right? ;) (Score:2)
After all, the police competence leves is at "We demand that you give us the PDFs *back*!". :))
What, information is not a property, as you cannot even tell who else holds a copy and who he gives it to?
The media industry has lied to us? Unpossible!