Changes between Version 21 and Version 22 of response-from-mfpl-members-server-seizure


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Apr 20, 2012, 7:45:36 PM (13 years ago)
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    77== What happened? ==
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    9 On Wednesday, April 11, MFPL was first visited by the FBI. We immediately communicated with our members about this incident. Read [https://lists.mayfirst.org/pipermail/lowdown/2012-April/000106.html that email here].
     9On Wednesday, April 11, MFPL was first visited by the FBI. We [https://lists.mayfirst.org/pipermail/lowdown/2012-April/000106.html immediately communicated with our members] about this incident.
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    1111One week later on April 18, at approximately 16:00 Eastern Time, the situation was escalated beyond our expectations. U.S. Federal authorities removed a server from a colocation facility shared by Riseup Networks and May First/People Link in New York City. Read more from our official press release [https://mayfirst.org/fbi-seizes-server-attack-anonymous-speech here].
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    13 Finally, MFPL issued its own statement, communicating our commitment to return service to the seized server, continuing to protect our members' data, and fighting for the right to anonymous communication online. Read the statement [https://mayfirst.org/fbi-attacks-anonymous-speech on our site].
     13Finally, [https://mayfirst.org/fbi-attacks-anonymous-speech MFPL issued its own statement], communicating our commitment to return service to the seized server, continuing to protect our members' data, and fighting for the right to anonymous communication online.
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    1515== Which MFPL members have been affected by the seizure? ==
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    5858= Questions we plan to answer soon: =
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    60 == Could server seizures like this one result in data loss? ==
     60== As a MFPL member, if a server I'm on is seized, will I have data loss? ==
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     62As a political organization protection of data is a key part of our mission, knowing that many of our members are active in different social movements we know that the potential exists for the authorities of the state to attempt to seize such data. As we have seen in the last year alone the many different states have or have attempted to seize data from different organizations (i.e. wikileaks, Bradley Manning, Megaupload to name a few). Since our membership is central to the organization we have contingency plans in place for data loss (as mentioned above), but we are human and cannot guarantee 100% that all data loss is fully recoverable, but as a political organization we will do the best of our abilities to restore any data loss relating to the servers