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

[Mike]

Moritz you did the right thing!

A lot of people consider the GDPR crappy only because it inconveniences them.
This law is actually extremely useful and greatly overdue.


On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 00:50:31 +0100
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 too 
> > late?
> >
> > On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 23:23:43 +0000
> > "Fabian A. Santiago" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> Wow! I’d love to see that as well.
> >>
> >> I just saw Kristian’s post with his email exchange. It’s a shame the 
> >> situation is going down like this. I do hope a proper solution 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> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> On 18-11-15 23:56:07, Moritz Wirth wrote:
> >>>> keys.flanga.io will cease operation - we received a request to remove
> >>>> 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 details?
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Georg
> 


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