FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us
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1 hour ago
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janpio
59 seconds ago
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So what did Nexi really want, and how did it get mangled so badly that it came out as "specifically the usernames and passwords of our supporters"?
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sam_lowry_
11 minutes ago
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Reminds me of the famous "Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants? [1]

[1] https://serverfault.com/questions/293217/our-security-audito...

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littlecranky67
14 minutes ago
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Everytime people say bitcoin has no use case, I'd like to point them to cases like this.
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Freak_NL
1 hour ago
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The FSFE justly drew the line at providing private information of supporters. How many other customers of Nexi simply handed over such data 'because audit'?
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rasjani
1 hour ago
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So this was not only about FSFE and payments for them but a general audit of their (Nexi's) customers ?
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TavsiE9s
58 minutes ago
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That’s how I read the linked post as well, yes.
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eequah9L
35 minutes ago
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> Over the past few months, our former payment provider Nexi S.p.A. (“Nexi”) requested access to private data, which we understood to be specifically the usernames and passwords of our supporters.

I must be missing something, but why is there an expectation that clear text passwords would even be known?

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butokai
1 hour ago
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As an Italian living in another EU country, I always thought that the amount of (broken) bureaucracy of Italy was not particularly worse. However this story comes after a couple more I heard this week, in a line of absurd practice possibly due to absurd regulations.
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grigio
48 minutes ago
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Maybe now more F/OSS supporters will understand the need of Bitcoin/Monero
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jasonvorhe
15 minutes ago
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Not unless they start questioning the Club of Rome induced climate scam.
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