--- title: The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati... description: Autistici/Inventati (A/I), a volunteer-run Italian hacker collective providing censorship-resistant hosting, email and communications infrastructure for 25... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-server-called-paranoia-defend-autistici-inventati-before-september-25-wnluqdzzk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati Before September 25 | daily.dev og:description: Autistici/Inventati (A/I), a volunteer-run Italian hacker collective providing censorship-resistant hosting, email and communications infrastructure for 25... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-server-called-paranoia-defend-autistici-inventati-before-september-25-wnluqdzzk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/wNLUQdZZK.png og:image:alt: The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati Before September 25 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati Before September 25 **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 27 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Autistici/Inventati (A/I), a volunteer-run Italian hacker collective providing censorship-resistant hosting, email and communications infrastructure for 25 years, was designated a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the U.S. State Department and placed on the Treasury's SDN list on August 26, 2026. A temporary OFAC wind-down license lets institutions sever ties with A/I until September 25, 2026, after which U.S. persons and companies are generally barred from providing services or funds to it, and foreign institutions risk secondary sanctions for facilitating transactions. The piece traces A/I's history—from its founding on a scavenged server called Paranoia, through the Genoa G8 protests, the Trenitalia legal fight, the covert Aruba police raid, the resulting Plan R* distributed architecture, and a 2010 Norwegian server seizure—arguing that while A/I's technical infrastructure is resilient to server seizures, the sanctions instead target its banking, hosting, domain and institutional relationships, which Plan R* cannot by itself protect. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What happens to Autistici/Inventati after the US terrorism designation on September 25, 2026? After 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on September 25, 2026, the OFAC temporary wind-down license expires and U.S. persons and institutions are generally barred from providing funds, goods or services to Autistici/Inventati, which was placed on the Treasury's Specially Designated Nationals list on August 26, 2026. Banks, hosting providers, registrars and payment processors are expected to sever ties, and foreign institutions risk secondary sanctions for facilitating transactions with the collective. _Developers building censorship-resistant infrastructure can follow sanctions and hosting disruptions like this on daily.dev._ ### What is Plan R* and why can't it protect Autistici/Inventati from the US sanctions? Plan R*, launched in October 2005 after Italian police covertly accessed A/I's server at the Aruba hosting provider, distributes encrypted data and services across multiple countries so no single server seizure can shut down the network. It was built to survive machines being seized, but it cannot stop banks from blocking funds, registrars from suspending domains, or companies from withdrawing services out of fear of US secondary sanctions. _Anyone weighing resilient hosting architecture against institutional and legal risk can track cases like this on daily.dev._ ### How did Italian police access Autistici/Inventati's server at the Aruba hosting provider in 2004? On June 15, 2004, Italian police acting on orders from a Bologna prosecutor went to the commercial hosting provider Aruba in Arezzo, where technicians shut down A/I's server and let police copy material from its disks and obtain cryptographic certificates. A/I was falsely told the outage was an electrical problem and only discovered the truth nearly a year later through case documents tied to an unrelated mailbox closure order. _Teams evaluating third-party hosting risk for sensitive infrastructure can follow incidents like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [A/I Shuts Down](https://daily.dev/posts/a-i-shuts-down-j4vzjql3t) · Lobsters · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#privacy](https://daily.dev/tags/privacy), [#self-hosting](https://daily.dev/tags/self-hosting) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-server-called-paranoia-defend-autistici-inventati-before-september-25-wnluqdzzk) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati Before September 25","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-server-called-paranoia-defend-autistici-inventati-before-september-25-wnluqdzzk","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-server-called-paranoia-defend-autistici-inventati-before-september-25-wnluqdzzk"},"datePublished":"2026-08-27T20:51:26.501Z","dateModified":"2026-08-27T22:21:10.587Z","description":"Autistici/Inventati (A/I), a volunteer-run Italian hacker collective providing censorship-resistant hosting, email and communications infrastructure for 25...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--HRgLpUt6--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2003","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--HRgLpUt6--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2003","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Lobsters","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Lobsters","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--tl8v_Fku--/f_auto,t_logo/v1698841318/logos/lobste.jpg","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-server-called-paranoia-defend-autistici-inventati-before-september-25-wnluqdzzk","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"privacy,self-hosting","timeRequired":"PT27M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Lobsters","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati Before September 25"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-server-called-paranoia-defend-autistici-inventati-before-september-25-wnluqdzzk#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What happens to Autistici/Inventati after the US terrorism designation on September 25, 2026?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"After 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on September 25, 2026, the OFAC temporary wind-down license expires and U.S. persons and institutions are generally barred from providing funds, goods or services to Autistici/Inventati, which was placed on the Treasury's Specially Designated Nationals list on August 26, 2026. 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