Great work. Keep the pressure on. Someone affected and pissed needs to think about litigation and send a preservation letter to all the parties - Yale, the three knuckleheads who did this, AND Mastadon itself. The latter will have backup tapes.
No, Mastodon won't. Mastodon isn't a centralized service, like Twitter; it's decentralized, like email. The server admins might have backups, but if they're doing it in their spare time, they might not.
good in the sense that it's a tacit admission of guilt -- destruction of evidence during a lawsuit can results in sanctions including the presumption of guilt
bad in the sense that once it was destroyed, it will be impossible to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Mastodon was a blackmail operation
OK, you are way ahead of me. Someone backs up, perhaps the "instance" else they constantly risk failure. If I have that wrong, then I'll desist. Maybe I should already!
Great work. Keep the pressure on. Someone affected and pissed needs to think about litigation and send a preservation letter to all the parties - Yale, the three knuckleheads who did this, AND Mastadon itself. The latter will have backup tapes.
No, Mastodon won't. Mastodon isn't a centralized service, like Twitter; it's decentralized, like email. The server admins might have backups, but if they're doing it in their spare time, they might not.
Damn, kid!
How many more vitamins can I take? I really want to be around when they write books about you.
Is this a good thing or bad thing for the good guys? So much going on here for those, like myself, not in the know it’s hard to know.
good in the sense that it's a tacit admission of guilt -- destruction of evidence during a lawsuit can results in sanctions including the presumption of guilt
bad in the sense that once it was destroyed, it will be impossible to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Mastodon was a blackmail operation
Depends on Mastadon's backup system and schedule. It might still be available - assuming someone aggrieved sends a preservation letter out.
What backup system? Mastadon is a distributed protocol, it's up to each instance to run its own servers.
OK, you are way ahead of me. Someone backs up, perhaps the "instance" else they constantly risk failure. If I have that wrong, then I'll desist. Maybe I should already!
Generally it's the responsibility of whoever runs each instance manage his own backups.
Yeah, maybe it would have been better to sue them first.