Pirate Party Germany server raid - Personal statement by Loz Kaye

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Pirate Party Germany server raid - Personal statement by Loz Kaye

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[borgs8472]

Wow, didn't see that coming. I'd like to say PPUK could do better should be lose our server, but I know this isn't the case. Ideally once implemented we'll have nightly or incremental backups shipped off to cloud / vpc hotspare server somewhere in the event should our hosting platform fail due to technical or legal pressures.

Reading with google translate it appears they were simply on a fairly cheap physically hosted setup, likely a shared LAMPed / cPaneled box or similar. Our VPC setup better insulates us against such liability colocated organisations have.

[ThomasG]

Whatever technical issues might be true or not.

As a fact: a "may be" rogatory - not officially sent to the German authorities led to a search and seizure decision. This in itself is as we all know "unlawful". A German judge did sign this piece of paper without an existing legal fundament. The rogatory itself did aim against our German providers.

The Pirate Party of Germany does see a severe violation of its Basic Law (Article 21) in the shutdown of their main medium - as it states out that a political party in Germany does have distinguished rights.

Best regards

Thomas Gaul