Autistic / Inventati, controlled by a year without knowing it.

Autistic

How much privacy is a key issue for electronic communications is seen clearly in the practices and in daily episodes, such as the one resounding only found out yesterday by the heads of serveri of Autistic and Invented. The facts are that in June 2004, agents of the postal police on behalf of the Public Prosecutor of Aruba Bologna have asked the provider to access the server that contained the emails sent and received by croceneraanarchica@inventati.org. Aruba has not only made available to the server, after detaching it from the network, without the slightest warning the owners of what was happening, but the phone calls of protest of the directors responded citing an electrical fault completely invented. The problem is that having had free access to the server, the police have also acquired the SSL keys, monitoring potentially its entire operation, including all the personal emails of all users who have a box of tipo@autistici.org or invented @ . org. The owners of the servers have withdrawn the same and put it online soon after due 'reclamation' with another provider. The blatant violation of any privacy, the lack of any 'notice of' in these cases and the end of the 'server seizure' as a practice normally pursued and that could be followed by the suspects in the event of timely notice from the same provider, have provoked the anger and despair of an entire community that has been discovered spied at home for a year without knowing it, and mocked in its technical and ethical principles that has always advocated. While we need a regulatory investigation procedures of tools that can sufficiently protect the suspects (currently at the mercy of the police), although there are other free tools to protect its communications through cryptographic techniques, these are still too unwieldy and difficult to understand for the average user and as a rule not implemented in a standard way in the e-mail software. A simplified and effective use of cryptographic techniques, for the most popular platforms, it would allow a much greater spread in the community and a consequent exponentially greater privacy protection against abuses like this.