My attitude on the Kolektiva breach is close to what my attitude was when I pointed out Riseup's canary had gone dead and then shit blew up.
It's bad. It's not quite as bad as some people imply. Admins fucked up by failing to have better security from get-go, but they're not maliciously or dishonest and some of their moves make some sense. Still. The catastrophe was locked in when radicals accepted community centralization. Probably their greater sin is de facto encouraging that centralization.
Generally in these cases part of the reason the community centralizes is that the admins are elders with wide connections and respect from eons doing shit. This means that they really do care and have generally good practices, and are sincerely trying their best re the trolley problems that involve how much to reveal on certain things.
But goddamn, I'm sick of older anarchist techies like Moxie w Signal embracing centralization.
Yeah, I mean this should go without saying. Every DM is fed-readable, but still, one standard raid shouldn't pick up a whole database, and when it does it should be fewer people than kolektiva grew to.
William Gillis 🏴
Daniel