We have been informed of another potential CSAM attack to our federated instance lemmy.ml.

After the events of the last time, I have preemptively and temporarily defederated us from lemmy.ml until the situation can be assessed with more clarity.

I have already deleted the suspicious posts (without looking at them myself, all from the database’s command line) and banned the author. To the best of our knowledge, at no point in time any CSAM content was saved on our server.

EDIT: 2023-09-03 8:40 UTC

There have been no further reports of similar problems arising from lemmy.ml or other instances, so I am re enabling federation. Thank you for your patience.

  • Atalocke@lemmy.basedcount.comMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m with you. I don’t like Cloudflare either. Not only for privacy reasons, but I’ve just had a number of generally bad customer interactions with them on other projects. Unfortunately, it seems to be the only solution for this issue. We’ve been lucky so far with these incidents. If somebody ever uploaded that stuff here it’d be an incredible pain in the ass.