[spam] [personal joke] Fwd: [Tails-news] Police raid at Zwiebelfreunde: Donor data compromised

[Karl Semich]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 4:44 PM Karl Semich <0xloem at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a recurring monthly payment to these guys that I've never sorted
> out what is for or how to cancel or if I want to. It's been repeating for
> more years than this email is old.
>
> This month it cost me over $600 because my account was overdrawn and the
> charge kept repeating. I was over $200 negative when I looked.
>
> All my tails money went to banking institutions in overdraw and transfer
> fees, eating into all my other money.
>

Oh and: the recurring amount is $5.00/month. [I probably wanted to
compensate riseup for using their services, but I never remember this]


>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Tails - News <rss at boum.org>
> Date: Sun, Jul 8, 2018, 2:53 AM
> Subject: [Tails-news] Police raid at Zwiebelfreunde: Donor data compromised
> To: <amnesia-news at boum.org>
>
>
> On June 20th 2018, German police searched the homes of board members of our
> former fiscal sponsor Zwiebelfreunde in a coordinated raid. Zwiebelfreunde
> (_Friends of onions_ in German) is a non-profit organization that supports
> privacy and anonymity projects and operates several Tor exit nodes.
>
> They are not accused of a crime but considered to be witnesses in a case:
> the
> operators of an anonymous website calling for protest against the far-right
> AfD (Alternative for Germany) party convention used an email address at
> Riseup, a privacy-friendly email provider to which Zwiebelfreunde
> facilitates
> donations.
>
> During the search, computers, storage media, personal items, bank account
> records, and paper receipts have been confiscated. This unfortunately means
> that if you have donated to Tails before October 18th 2017 using our
> European
> bank account, your data is now in the hands of the German police (IBAN
> account
> number, name of account holder, amount, and date). If you donated after
> this
> date, you donated to our new fiscal sponsor CCT and not to Zwiebelfreunde.
>
> According to Moritz Bartl, one of the board members, "_there's a long
> history
> of police using that kind of data to investigate social structures; who's
> working where, who's involved in which projects, so we have to assume that
> they are looking into the social networks of people_"
> ([Source](https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-police-raid-homes-of-tor-
> linked-groups-board-members/)
> <https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-police-raid-homes-of-tor-linked-groups-board-members/)>
> ).
>
> The raid has been strongly criticized by [German
> media](http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/hausdurchsuchungen-bei-
>
> netzaktivisten-chaos-computer-club-kritisiert-polizeivorgehen-a-1216463.html
> <http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/hausdurchsuchungen-bei-netzaktivisten-chaos-computer-club-kritisiert-polizeivorgehen-a-1216463.html>
> )
> and [digital rights activists](
> https://netzpolitik.org/2018/zwiebelfreunde-
> durchsuchungen-wenn-zeugen-wie-straftaeter-behandelt-werden/
> <https://netzpolitik.org/2018/zwiebelfreunde-durchsuchungen-wenn-zeugen-wie-straftaeter-behandelt-werden/>)
> as being
> [disproportionate](
> https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2018/hausdurchsuchungen-bei-
> vereinsvorstanden-der-zwiebelfreunde-und-im-openlab-augsburg
> <https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2018/hausdurchsuchungen-bei-vereinsvorstanden-der-zwiebelfreunde-und-im-openlab-augsburg>
> ).
>
> Please join us in supporting our friends at
> [Zwiebelfreunde](https://www.zwiebelfreunde.de/). We are very grateful
> for the
> support they have provided to Tails.
>
> Read more about the case and find links to international press coverage on
> [Zwiebelfreunde's blog](https://blog.torservers.net/20180704/coordinated-
> raids-of-zwiebelfreunde-at-various-locations-in-germany.html
> <https://blog.torservers.net/20180704/coordinated-raids-of-zwiebelfreunde-at-various-locations-in-germany.html>
> ).
>
>
>
> URL: https://tails.boum.org/news/zwiebelfreunde_raided/index.en.html
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