Justice demands 1.3M IP addresses related to Trump resistance site

[riversedge]

Source: the hill




By Morgan Chalfant - 08/14/17 05:58 PM EDT



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The Department of Justice has requested information on visitors to a website used to organize protests against President Trump, the Los Angeles-based Dreamhost said in a blog post published on Monday.

Dreamhost, a web hosting provider, said that it has been working with the Department of Justice for several months on the request, which believes goes too far under the Constitution.

DreamHost claimed that the complying with the request from the Justice Department would amount to handing over roughly 1.3 million visitor IP addresses to the government, in addition to contact information, email content and photos of thousands of visitors to the website, which was involved in organizing protests against Trump on Inauguration Day.

“That information could be used to identify any individuals who used this site to exercise and express political speech protected under the Constitution’s First Amendment,” DreamHost wrote in the blog post on Monday. “That should be enough to set alarm bells off in anyone’s mind.”
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Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/346544-dreamhost-claims-doj-requesting-info-on-visitors-to-anti-trump-website

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wtw!! this can not be legal????

Link to tweet

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. UN FUCKING BELEIVABLE

They will NOT be happy until they jail us or get us to do something patriotic then jail us for that.

America is GONE and pretty soon some of us are going to LOSE it

[FakeNoose]

44. This is nothing - let's not over-react

What are they going to do with 1,300,000 names? And in most cases the names are fictitious anyway.

Sessions doesn't even have a staff he can assign this to. They've all been busy trying to save Trump's ass, what's left of them. The rest of DOJ has been fired already.

[bettyellen]

52. Bullshit- they can feed these names to Crosscheck, it's likely the plan.

[Eliot Rosewater]

55. We are UNDER reacting to the NAZIS

[niyad]

57. unfortunately, NOTHING this maladministration does is unbelievable

[bagelsforbreakfast]

2. And so it begins... n/m

[pangaia]

27. Not begins. just the next step,

and that session little shit is in the middle of it..

how does anybody become such a flithy human beings and then get elected to national office on top of it..

[irisblue]

3. Soon as I find out that IP, mine too

Or maybe the Wi-Fi burner phone that costs $10. Or maybe the libraries IP, or maybe the courts will slap Beauregard & twitter into low earth orbit.

For the record, fuck both those guys.

[True Dough]

41. RESIST, irisblue!

That's the spirit!

[irisblue]

43. They both can kiss my cellulite ridden ass. First Amendment ya bozos

[EllieBC]

4. Is the ACLU aware???

Surely this cannot be legal!

[BigmanPigman]

5. Get him out of office ASAP! We can not wait for Congress other Mueller.

We the people need to call, protest, boycott, etc before we are not allowed to anymore.

[McCamy Taylor]

6. THis is a scare tactic. Make people too afraid to use the internet.

[Ahpook]

11. I thought the same thing initially

But merely asking for this info is still very brazen.

These fucking clowns have to go!

[pangaia]

28. they WANT the info!

[Phoenix61]

7. But not Breitbart or any of the nazi sites.

Complete effing asshats.

[riversedge]

26. yes, why go after just one site (as far as I can determine)??

[bora13]

8. they always get

their prey.
but, fuck em.

son of a bitch comes after people
by mining IP addresses. pretty sad.

so this makes him a con, potential extortionist, and a vindictive traitor to this country.

[dalton99a]

9. Why is this not on the front page of WP or NYT?

[Mr.Bill]

14. Because some guy saying something on a blog

does not meet their standards for credibility.

[SecularMotion]

20. Here's the search warrant

https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DH-Search-Warrant.pdf

[DBoon]

54. thank you

Nt

[hlthe2b]

10. Someone with twitter access should bring this to the attention of

ACLU, Seth Abramson, Laurence Tribe, Preet Bharara, Benjamin Wittes, Ari Melber, Jeffrey Toobin, Electronic Frontier Foundation.

I can not imagine this will not erupt in a major fight.

[SecularMotion]

18. The EFF is involved

We’ve been working closely with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and their counsel throughout this process. They’ve been nothing but supportive and helpful throughout, and we’re honored to have them in our corner.

https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/we-fight-for-the-users/

[hlthe2b]

19. Thank heavens... the more the better, though

if only to get the word out

[Eugene]

12. So the pretext of this fishing expedition is "rioting" in DC.

Police state tactics. They could be coming for us next.

[Solly Mack]

13. K&R

[bucolic_frolic]

15. Call it what it is .... UNMASKING

[sinkingfeeling]

16. What's the justification? No federal court should allow this invasion of privacy.

[Stuart G]

34. You are correct, but it has to go to a federal court before it is struck down.

And it will be.

[SecularMotion]

17. Here's a link to the blog post on Dreamhost

https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/we-fight-for-the-users/

Last Friday Mr. Ghazarian, with the help of his legal team and outside counsel, filed legal arguments in opposition (PDF) of the DOJ’s request for access to this trove of personally identifiable information.

This motion is our latest salvo in what has become a months-long battle to protect the identities of thousands of unwitting internet users. Mr. Ghazarian will attend a court hearing on the matter on August 18 in Washington, D.C.

[sarcasmo]

21. We're living in a Fascist nation.

[PatrickforO]

22. These nazi motherfuckers want nothing more than to get our names and addresses

so they can round us up and slap us in for-profit concentration camps.

Fight.

Resist.

[C Moon]

23. Trump's starting to look old...and more and more like a puppet.

[6000eliot]

24. Want my IP address, Scumbags? It's #gofuckyourselves.

[SonofDonald]

25. Perfect....n/t

[irisblue]

42. May I steal this? To the point

[6000eliot]

56. Please do.

[keithbvadu2]

29. As someone else mentioned - Fishing expedition

[AlexSFCA]

30. this is the point of entering into active fascism state

this info can now be leaked by so call 'administration' to alt right wolves will eat it up directing their online AND offline harassment appropriately to silence opposition. Silencing opposition activists is a first step. This is classic putin/surkov technique widey utilized in russia and it is VERY effective.

[Cryptoad]

31. Here my IP just in case he wants it:

BR.54.9

[rickford66]

32. Maybe the list will be used to take our guns.

Has anyone heard that ? I hope the NRA is alerted.

[Stuart G]

33. This story broke at about 6pm Eastern Time..Tomorrow this will be HUGE !!!!!!

...Tomorrow this will be the number 1 story.....

[Crash2Parties]

35. Retribution for making Nazis look bad. And by Nazis I mean the GOP.

From the pdf. Bracketed text is mine.

All information described above in Section I that constitutes fruits, evidence and instrumentalities of violations of D.C. Code 22-1322 involving the individuals who participated, planed [sic], organized, or incited the January 20 riot, relating to the development, publishing, advertisement, access, use, administration or maintenance of any website enumerated in Attachment A, including [long list of website components & code such as CSS, HTML, databases, etc].

[dchill]

36. They will not go quietly.

But they will go.

[yellowcanine]

37. "I have here in my pocket a list of names and addresses......"

No friggin way you little fascist!

[IronLionZion]

38. Is the site Democratic Underground?

Asking for a friend

They'll come after DU sooner than later. Their hacker buddies in Russia have already attacked this site more than once.

[TheBlackAdder]

39. EFF is monitoring this DreamHost overreach issue, with an August 18th court date.

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In J20 Investigation, DOJ Overreaches Again. And Gets Taken to Court Again.

We’ve already written about problems with the government’s investigation into the J20 protests—a series of demonstrations on January 20, the day of President Trump’s inauguration—which resulted in the arrest of hundreds of protesters.

But prosecutors in DC are still at it. And they’re still using unconstitutional methods to pursue their investigation.

This time they served a search warrant on hosting provider DreamHost that would require the company to turn over essentially all information on a website it hosts, www.disruptj20.org—a site that was dedicated to organizing and planning the protest.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/j20-investigation-doj-overreaches-again-and-gets-taken-court-again


Donate to EFF: https://supporters.eff.org/donate

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[LudwigPastorius]

40. Easy to see why Trump was so reticent to condemn the fascists in Charlottesville.

He's one of them.

[TomCADem]

45. I Guess We Now Know What Pence Was Talking About...

...when he said that voices on the left would be marginalized. They are coming after patriots and activists.

[raven mad]

46. Bring it on, Sessions -

I'll show you parts of Interior Alaska you really didn't want to see.

[xor]

48. What the hell. What possible excuse can they use to justify this? Do they even care?

Of course the Trump supporters will cheer it on without thinking about how this affects everyone in the country.

[cojoel]

49. I am Fenwick!

We should all go there.

The Russian bots should told to go there too.

[laserhaas]

50. K&R. We're in dire times. The U.K. just passed a law

to allow cameras and monitoring that's way beyond the Book "1984".

Unless we are diligent, "they" will silence U.S.

[laserhaas]

51. Link to WIRED story on U.K. anti privacy law

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/ip-bill-law-details-passed

[Doug the Dem]

53. Kick for Original

[muriel_volestrangler]

58. Kick (nt)