Re: [Sks-devel] Withdrawal of Service - keys.flanga.io

[Mike]

This has Been Kristians approach to previous issues like this, and this has led 
to now. where the servers have not changed, that neglect now ruins it for 
everyone else and even puts the admins at risk of financial and legal damage, 
as you mentioned most cant afford to take that risk.

yakamo

On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 23:56:26 +0000
"Fabian A. Santiago" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Yeh I don’t agree with the stance “we haven’t seen a shutdown via legal 
> challenge yet so I’m happy to just hang and wait and see what happens...”. 
> Sorry but many people running keyservers aren’t businesses but rather private 
> individuals and can not afford to risk ANY possible legal action. Once you 
> hear from an attorney, the stakes go up and that’s too much a risk to bear.
> 
> --
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Fabian S.
> 
> OpenPGP:
> 
> 0x643082042DC83E6D94B86C405E3DAA18A1C22D8F
> 
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 6:50 PM, Moritz Wirth <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I asked to be allowed to share some more details, however the request
> > was to remove/prevent indexing of 2 keys stored on our keyservers -
> > including copies of ID's to verify the request as required by the
> > european data protection law. Since it is not possible to prevent the
> > indexing of data, I think the only possible way to handle this request
> > is to shut them down. I don't see a reason to fight this - it is the
> > right of someone to get his/her data removed so we are required to do
> > this regardless of how crappy that law might be. If someone decides to
> > ignore it, it's up on them.
> >
> > Am 16.11.18 um 00:31 schrieb Mike:
> >
> >> Fabian, im sure you can tell that nothings going to change :(
> >>
> >> But maybe these shutdowns in protest will provoke change, before its to=
> > o late?
> >>
> >> On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 23:23:43 +0000
> >> "Fabian A. Santiago" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Wow! I=E2=80=99d love to see that as well.
> >>>
> >>> I just saw Kristian=E2=80=99s post with his email exchange. It=E2=80=99=
> > s a shame the situation is going down like this. I do hope a proper solut=
> > ion can be found so I and hopefully others can return to contributing to =
> > the network, should the mode of operation dictate and stay this way.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Fabian S.
> >>>
> >>> OpenPGP:
> >>>
> >>> 0x643082042DC83E6D94B86C405E3DAA18A1C22D8F
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 5:58 PM, Georg Faerber <address@hidden> wrot=
> > e:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> On 18-11-15 23:56:07, Moritz Wirth wrote:
> >>>>> keys.flanga.io will cease operation - we received a request to remov=
> > e
> >>>>> some keys and since we are unable to do this, we will shutdown all
> >>>>> keyservers and erase all relevant databases immediately.
> >>>> Would it be possible to share this request, omitting sensitive detail=
> > s?
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> Georg

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me <address@hidden>