US sanctions Italian email provider for serving Antifa and PKK
US sanctions Italian hosting provider for encrypted email to Antifa and PKK
The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned Autistici Inventati, an Italian hosting and encrypted email provider, for supplying digital tools to Antifa cells and the PKK. Also sanctioned are UK-based Palestine Action and the transnational group Masar Badil, a front for the PFLP, along with two of its leaders. The action targets the infrastructure enabling far-left terrorism, as part of a broader U.S. strategy against political violence.
Political terrorism has no place in our society, and we will continue to cut the financial lifelines of these groups until they are eliminated.
- john_strinlai
>A/I’s cadre of radical hackers and tech developers provide a full spectrum of services – including encrypted chats and email, web hosting, secure video conferencing and streaming, anonymity shields, and a suite of other technological tools [...] while remaining anonymous, untraceable, and beyond the reach of the law.
ignoring the political leanings, this type of rhetoric will certainly be used to further the campaign against encryption, bolster the case for id verification requirements, etc. it paints the use of everyday normal tools: email, web hosting, etc. as inherently bad if they are private.
- jml7c5
The total attention given to this is a little bit goofy given the small sums involved. According to Autistici Invenati's costs page[1], the total they spend every year is €20,300. It's strange to see it trumped up as anything like a major entity.
- andretti1977
US sanctioned ICC, Francesca Albanese and a lot of other people who simply tell the truth.
The United States may still have power, but they no longer have any credibility and no longer deserve any respect, neither they nor their zionist partners
- NDlurker
>Rose City Antifa also used A/I Collective tools and services to disseminate doxing lists and release illegally obtained personal information of Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with calls for targeted attacks on ICE agents in the streets and “in their homes.”
That's what DHS does. They dish it out but can't handle it when it's done to them. Cowards.
- hexator
What the US government is doing here is a perversion of justice. Anyone running web services critical of those in control of the US government should be extremely concerned.
- sybercecurity
Declaring a group of "hackers" as global terrorists? Mark off that spot on your Cyberpunk Dystopia Bingo cards.
- iugtmkbdfil834
It is an interesting read, because of how odd an attack it is. The rationale itself is technically not new and 'hacker known as 4chan' is a meme for a reason.
However, it may be worthwhile to consider those sanctions in light of Bessent's recent conference, where he failed to deliver on his own overpromise of economic d-day, which, reasonably, a lot of professionals interpreted as Chinese banks sanctions.
In other words, while notable and maybe even worrying in terms of precedent it is apparently trying to set up ( because it does ), compared to a broader failure to deliver on a rather massive threat suggests this is weird distraction and not the main course.
- impossiblefork
Very strange to decide to only supply a communications system to people ideologically aligned with one. That seems like it would make one stand out to an undesirable degree, and it makes me wonder whether these groups actually do this, or whether they're setting others up. If this is correct I almost whether they're going after something set up by the Italian government.
Still, it seems like this would likely to be protected under the US first amendment, and it would probably be reasonable to bring legal action in the US to avoid silly stuff happening in Europe, when this in inevitably used to send goons and annoying infiltrators across the sea to Italy and Europe.