I make and sell BusKill laptop kill cords. Monero is accepted.
The fines usually are a percent of revenue or millions of Euros, whichever is higher.
So if your revenue is 0 EUR then they can fine you the millions of Euros instead. The point of the “percent of revenue” alternative was for larger corporations that can get fined tens or hundreds of millions of Euros (or, as it happened to Meta, in some cases – billions of Euros for a single GDPR violation).
The fines usually are a percent of revenue or millions of Euros, whichever is higher.
So if your revenue is 0 EUR then they can fine you the millions of Euros instead. The point of the “percent of revenue” alternative was for larger corporations that can get fined tens or hundreds of millions of Euros (or, as it happened to Meta, in some cases – billions of Euros for a single GDPR violation).
That would be true if their instance wasn’t federating. If the instance is federating, then it’s downloading content from other users, even if the user isn’t registered on the instance. And that content is publicly available.
So if someone discovers their content on their instance and sends them a GDPR request (eg Erasure), then they are legally required to process it.
It’s definitely not impossible to contact all instances; it’s a finite list. But we should have a tool to make this easier. Something that can take a given username or post, do a search, find out all the instances that it federated-to, get the contact for all of those instances, and then send-out a formal “GDPR Erasure Request” to all of the relevant admins.
Very nice. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like Boost is available on F-Droid.
Fortunately, in my case, my image was “orphaned” and never actually attached to a post or comment, so it wouldn’t have federated.
If the image has already federated then that’s a whole next level problem :(
Hi, unfortunate author here 😅
The issue happened in Jerboa. I opened a few tickets in the Jerboa app’s GitHub to address this:
Can you please tell us which Lemmy client apps you use that store the delete token and have a UI to delete uploaded images?
This is a big problem. At the time of writing:
pict-rs is a third-party simple image hosting service that runs along-side Lemmy for instances that allow users to upload media.
At the time of writing, there is no WUI for admins to find and delete images. You have to manually query the pict-rs database and execute an API call from the command-line. Worse: Lemmy has no documentation telling instance admins how to delete images 🤦
For the purposes of this example, let's assume you're trying to delete the following image
https://monero.town/pictrs/image/001665df-3b25-415f-8a59-3d836bb68dd1.webp
There are two API endpoints in pict-rs that can be used to delete an image
This API call is publicly-accessible, but it first requires you to
obtain the image's `delete_token
`
The `delete_token
` is first returned by Lemmy when POSTing to the
`/pictrs/image
` endpoint
{
"msg":"ok",
"files":[
{
"file":"001665df-3b25-415f-8a59-3d836bb68dd1.webp",
"delete_token":"d88b7f32-a56f-4679-bd93-4f334764d381"
}
]
}
Two pieces of information are returned here:
Of course, if you didn't capture this image's `delete_token
` at
upload-time, then you must fetch it from the postgres DB.
First, open a shell on your running postgres container. If you installed
Lemmy with docker compose, use `docker compose ps
` to get the
"SERVICE" name of your postgres host, and then enter it with
`docker exec
`
docker compose ps --format "table {{.Service}}\t{{.Image}}\t{{.Name}}"
docker compose exec <docker_service_name> /bin/bash
For example:
user@host:/home/user/lemmy# docker compose ps --format "table {{.Service}}\t{{.Image}}\t{{.Name}}"
SERVICE IMAGE NAME
lemmy dessalines/lemmy:0.19.3 lemmy-lemmy-1
lemmy-ui dessalines/lemmy-ui:0.19.3 lemmy-lemmy-ui-1
pictrs docker.io/asonix/pictrs:0.5.4 lemmy-pictrs-1
postfix docker.io/mwader/postfix-relay lemmy-postfix-1
postgres docker.io/postgres:15-alpine lemmy-postgres-1
proxy docker.io/library/nginx lemmy-proxy-1
user@host:/home/user/lemmy#
user@host:/home/user/lemmy# docker compose exec postgres /bin/bash
postgres:/#
Connect to the database as the `lemmy
` user
psql -U lemmy
For example
postgres:/# psql -U lemmy
psql (15.5)
Type "help" for help.
lemmy=#
Query for the image by the "alias" (the filename)
select * from image_upload where pictrs_alias = '<image_filename>';
For example
lemmy=# select * from image_upload where pictrs_alias = '001665df-3b25-415f-8a59-3d836bb68dd1.webp';
local_user_id | pictrs_alias | pictrs_delete_token | published
---------------+--------------+---------------------+-----------
1149 | 001665df-3b25-415f-8a59-3d836bb68dd1.webp | d88b7f32-a56f-4679-bd93-4f334764d381 | 2024-02-07 11:10:17.158741+00
(1 row)
lemmy=#
Now, take the `pictrs_delete_token
` from the above output, and use
it to delete the image.
The following command should be able to be run on any computer connected to the internet.
curl -i "https://<instance_domain>/pictrs/image/delete/<pictrs_delete_token>/<image_filename>"
For example:
user@disp9140:~$ curl -i "https://monero.town/pictrs/image/delete/d88b7f32-a56f-4679-bd93-4f334764d381/001665df-3b25-415f-8a59-3d836bb68dd1.webp"
HTTP/2 204 No Content
server: nginx
date: Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:37:48 GMT
vary: Origin, Access-Control-Request-Method, Access-Control-Request-Headers
cache-control: private
referrer-policy: same-origin
x-content-type-options: nosniff
x-frame-options: DENY
x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
X-Firefox-Spdy: h2
user@disp9140:~$
ⓘ Note: If you get an `
incorrect_login
` error, then try [a] logging into the instance in your web browser and then [b] pasting the "https://<instance_domain>/pictrs/image/delete/<pictrs_delete_token>/<image_filename>
" URL into your web browser.
The image should be deleted.
Alternatively, you could execute the deletion directly inside the pictrs
container. This eliminates the need to fetch the `delete_token
`.
First, open a shell on your running `pictrs
` container. If you
installed Lemmy with docker compose, use `docker compose ps
` to get
the "SERVICE" name of your postgres host, and then enter it with
`docker exec
`
docker compose ps --format "table {{.Service}}\t{{.Image}}\t{{.Name}}"
docker compose exec <docker_service_name> /bin/sh
For example:
user@host:/home/user/lemmy# docker compose ps --format "table {{.Service}}\t{{.Image}}\t{{.Name}}"
SERVICE IMAGE NAME
lemmy dessalines/lemmy:0.19.3 lemmy-lemmy-1
lemmy-ui dessalines/lemmy-ui:0.19.3 lemmy-lemmy-ui-1
pictrs docker.io/asonix/pictrs:0.5.4 lemmy-pictrs-1
postfix docker.io/mwader/postfix-relay lemmy-postfix-1
postgres docker.io/postgres:15-alpine lemmy-postgres-1
proxy docker.io/library/nginx lemmy-proxy-1
user@host:/home/user/lemmy#
user@host:/home/user/lemmy# docker compose exec pictrs /bin/sh
~ $
Execute the following command inside the `pictrs
` container.
wget --server-response --post-data "" --header "X-Api-Token: ${PICTRS__SERVER__API_KEY}" "http://127.0.0.1:8080/internal/purge?alias=<image_filename>"
For example:
~ $ wget --server-response --post-data "" --header "X-Api-Token: ${PICTRS__SERVER__API_KEY}" "http://127.0.0.1:8080/internal/purge?alias=001665df-3b25-415f-8a59-3d836bb68dd1.webp"
Connecting to 127.0.0.1:8080 (127.0.0.1:8080)
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
content-length: 67
connection: close
content-type: application/json
date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 12:56:24 GMT
saving to 'purge?alias=001665df-3b25-415f-8a59-3d836bb68dd1.webp'
purge?alias=001665df 100% |*****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************| 67 0:00:00 ETA
'purge?alias=001665df-3b25-415f-8a59-3d836bb68dd1.webp' saved
~ $
ⓘ Note: There's an error in the pict-rs reference documentation. It says you can POST to `/internal/delete`, but that just returns
404 Not Found
.
The image should be deleted
Unfortunately, it seems that the Lemmy develoeprs are not taking these moral and legal (GDPR) risks seriously (they said it may take years before they address them), and they threatened to ban me for trying to highlight the severity of this risk, get them to tag GDPR-related bugs, and to prioritize them.
If GDPR-compliance is important to you on the fediverse, then please provide feedback to the Lemmy developers in the GitHub links above.
This comment was copied from the following article: Nightmare on Lemmy Street (A Fediverse GDPR Horror Story)
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This seems to suggest that you have to get it from lemmy when you first uploaded the image
Thanks, but I’m asking because I didn’t find the reference documentation especially helpful.
It says I need the “delete token” or “alias”. How do I get that for a given URL?
I’m looking for an example that describes how to construct the commands for the API calls knowing only the URL of the image.
You associate everything that can be bought with cryptocurrency as a scam? It sounds like you haven’t even read the post. I spent a lot of time making it easily accessible here on Lemmy. You don’t even have to click the link. Just scroll-up and read :)
How exactly did you come to the conclusion that this is a scam? We’re a fully open-source hardware & software project that’s been around for a few years. If you don’t want to buy from us, we go out of our way to help users build their own 3D-printed BusKill cables (currently in prototype stage).
Our software is free as in speech and free as in beer under the CC BY-SA and GNU GPL licenses.
It’s run by the folks at dys2p.
Besides running ProxyStore in Leipzig, they have published some pretty great articles:
You can follow them on Mastodon here https://chaos.social/@dys2p
Yes BusKill works similarly – any USB drive can use the BusKill software
The BusKill cable is just nice because it includes a magnetic breakaway, so it works when the laptop is snatched-away at any angle. There’s actually a ton of anti-forensics software like usbkill and BusKill; we enumerate them all on our documentation’s Similar Projects section
You may want to check ^ it out :)
I made a video of this (demo in Windows, MacOS, Linux, TAILS, and QubesOS) with the old DIY model here (sorry for the terrible audio quality)
We’re currently working on an updated video with someone who is much better at video production than me; it should be finished in early 2024.
Theft of high-risk users’ data. Data could include private keys (eg theft of cryptocurrency assets), contacts of correspondence (eg sources of a journalist – such as whistleblowers), etc.
For more information, see the Who Uses BusKill? section of the documentation.
Personally I wouldn’t run a lemmy instance because of this (and also many other concerns)
I recommend [a] letting the lemmy devs know (eg on GitHub) that this issue is preventing you from running a lemmy instance and [b] donating to alternative projects that actually care about data privacy rights.