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Likely under the command of law enforcement and without informing any clients.

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[-] taaz@biglemmowski.win 22 points 1 year ago

The linked research: http://notes.valdikss.org.ru/jabber.ru-mitm/

I have two dedis from Hetzner and I was somewhat satisfied with it. Oh my, it migh be that time of the year where I go shopping for a NUC.

[-] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago

Ahhh. Going after Russian services of course.

Knowing the German government I'm not terribly surprised Hetzner was forced to comply quietly. But still, if they'll do it for one user, they'll do it for everyone. Really sucks.

[-] justJanne@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's no provider that's going to be more safe than Hetzner, tbh.

If a provider doesn't comply, you'll just get special services raiding their DCs instead.

And if you switch to a VPS provider, you're even more exposed.

Set up CAA with proper restrictions, enforce CT for your clients and use proper full disk encryption to prevent them from placing implants on your server itself.

[-] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 1 year ago

Just buy a raspi to check the certificates periodically :>

[-] TonyToniToneOfficial@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Alwyzon is nice. Good ping times.

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Had a friend that got a cheapo Gigabyte NUC and he needed to use a dummy HDMI for it to even boot. As it, it wouldn't boot w/o a monitor. Take heed.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

That’s a pretty meh problem though. It’s the whole reason dummy HDMI’s exist.

[-] ericjmorey@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago
[-] iso@lemy.lol 7 points 1 year ago

Interesting 🤷‍♂️ I’ll check news on this. I won’t use Hetzner if its true.

[-] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Please do. An unsubstantiated reddit thread does not a story make- but the more people we get to look into it, the more likely someone will corroborate it (or not)

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 23 points 1 year ago

An unsubstantiated reddit thread does not a story make

Awoken I am

[-] geekworking@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

If want something that is immune from law enforcement wiretap warrants, you should avoid basically all hosting and internet service providers.

Read the TOS on virtually every service. There's some language to say that they will comply with legal requests. The company is not going to fight the government for your $5 account.

Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc all have wiretap and legal discovery tools built into their platforms and have a dedicated team to process wiretaps.

[-] iso@lemy.lol 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Stop the service and inspect the machine for law violations. I'm ok to that. But proxying the network without a notice is literally spying.

Reverse the case, if a Chinese/Russian provider did this, would you still be OK? It's funny US and west countries blaming easterns for spying while doing far far more.

[-] geekworking@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The entire term wiretap comes from spying on phone conversations upstream without the target's knowledge. This is no different.

China and Russia are 1000% doing this and more to anything hosted anywhere under their jurisdiction. The CCP brags about the Great Firewall.

I don't necessarily agree with any of it, but I am pointing out that changing providers to one who wasn't in the news is not a way to get around government data collection.

[-] Madiator2011@lm.madiator.cloud 2 points 1 year ago

It’s is also affecting auction servers?

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