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Re:Self hosting is important by ValentineC on Saturday July 24, 2021 @12:20PM (#27942183)
> When you use third-party services, the government can go to them. The third party might not fight the request the same way you would. And, you might not even know it happened. The third party might be expressly forbidden from telling you it happened, in fact.

I just read the LinkedIn Incident [1] from the Darknet Diaries, and it's scary how the FBI managed to get all that information about the Russian hacker.

[1] https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/86/

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Re:Self hosting is important by prophesi on Saturday July 24, 2021 @01:46PM (#27942958)
I'm a bit astonished that LinkedIn's IT[0] needed the FBI to figure out that the person had a unique useragent. And that they don't have alerts for unknown IPs SSH'ing into their server.

[0] though this is before Microsoft acquiring them, so it was probably just the usual startup reckless abandon.

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