Hacker News Reader

Comment by user5994461 | Hacker News Reader

For the comparison, Facebook/WhatsApp would fully cooperate with the police, if an account is identified to be some sort of fraud/terrorism/drugs, they will communicate the known identity of the user with last known IP and any information they have (under warrant).

OVH cannot do that, they only rent physical servers, they have no information about the software or the user. If the police comes knocking, the only thing that can be done is to shutdown or seize the servers.

The police must have something against some users of guerilla mail (not a surprise given the nature of the service), they probably went against the servers because they couldn't get a reply or any action from guerilla mail. I checked and found no contact information and no ownership information on their website.

View on HN

They can contact the server user so that the user can hand out that info information.

Any law enforcement should contact guerillamail not the hardware hoster.

Only if gurillamail itself is classified as a criminal organization or similar should OVH be contacted for takedown. Even then gurillamail still should be informed about the exact legal court order which caused that so that they can take appropriate actions.

The fact that they are taken down supposedly because of the law enforcement but no reason is given is SUPER fishy and smell like non law compliment overreach.ail

>>> They can contact the server user so that the user can hand out that info information.

What do you think happens when the hoster receives an official warrant to disclose who is one particular customer? They shutdown the customer.

It should be handled better. On that we can agree.

They do have contact info in the "about us" section, and also as a signature at the bottom of each email.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:54xhOU...

"Please contact us on Twitter / Facebook" is not a receivable contact information.

There's a signature that leads to contact info at the bottom of each email.

That doesn't cut it, law enforcement is not going to send emails to figure out how to send them emails.

FYI: A website is required by (French) law to have legal mentions including the company name, address, director, company registration number...

LE does in fact follow the link and use the contacts there 99.999% of the time. The site has been running fine on OVH for nearly 5 years without problem.

It is not hosted in France or in Europe, it is also not a French company.

It was hosted in Canada on space owned by a Canadian company.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com