[IT] Nei prossimi 10 giorni tutti i servizi sui server Autistici/Inventati saranno spenti. Questo significa che tutte le mail smetteranno di funzionare, quindi se avete utilizzato le nostre caselle di posta per registrarvi su servizi vari online dovete al più presto cambiare queste mail. Di seguito trovate indicazioni su come esportare dati per i vari servizi presenti sulla infrastruttura di A/I. 1. NOBLOGS Gli owner e admin dei blog riceveranno un’email con un link per scaricare il proprio blog inclusi post e uploads, in una forma che rende possibile la migrazione su una diversa piattaforma WordPress. ECCO LE ISTRUZIONI PASSO DOPO PASSO PER IMPORTARE QUELLO CHE TI FORNIAMO IN UNA NUOVA INSTALLAZIONE DI WORDPRESS: 1. Accedi alla bacheca del tuo nuovo blog WordPress. 2. Passa il mouse su Strumenti nel menu a sinistra e clicca su Importa. 3. Trova la voce WordPress in fondo alla lista e clicca su Installa ora. 4. Clicca su Avvia l’importazione una volta completata l’installazione. 5. Clicca su Scegli file e seleziona il file XML salvato sul tuo computer. 6. Clicca su Carica file e importa. 7. Assegna gli articoli a un autore esistente o crea un nuovo utente nella schermata successiva. 8. Seleziona la casella Scarica e importa gli allegati per trasferire anche le immagini e i media. 9. Clicca su Invia per avviare il processo. Al termine apparirà un messaggio di conferma. Se riscontri errori durante il caricamento (ad esempio per file troppo grandi), contattaci scrivendo una mail a help@inventati.org. Possiamo spiegarti come aumentare il limite di caricamento o come dividere il file XML in parti più piccole. (o cerca online). Inoltre, importare gli allegati funzionerà solo se noblogs.org è ancora accessibile. Se non lo è, dovrai installare nel tuo nuovo blog un plugin specializzato per cambiare i link ai files salvati. Nota che dopo lo spegnimento della nostra infrastruttura non sarà più possibile contattarci. Se pensi di aver bisogno di aiuto con la migrazione, cerca di migrare il tuo blog su una nuova piattaforma WordPress prima di quella data. 2. MAIL I vostri messaggi di posta sono conservati in formato criptato nei dischi nei nostri server, noi non possiamo accedere al contenuto, soltanto voi con la vostra password potete. È importante che scarichiate la vostra casella prima della chiusura dei servizi di A/I, successivamente non sarà più possibile recuperare i messaggi. Dalla webmail non è possibile scaricare i messaggi. Potete solo selezionarli in blocco e cancellarli, di fatto svuotando la casella. Per salvarli dovete installare un software per la gestione delle email sul vostro computer e scaricarli. Consigliamo di usare Thunderbird. Qui trovate la guida su come fare: https://www.inventati.org/docs/mail/thunderbird Non forniremo informazioni per attività di sincronizzare ed esportazione verso servizi di posta terzi e/o commerciali. La rubrica dei contatti può essere scaricata dalla webmail, usando l’opzione “Esporta” nel menu “Contatti”. PARAMETRI DI CONNESSIONE * Protocollo: IMAP * Server in entrata: * Server: mail.inventati.org * Porta 993 (SSL/TLS) / 143 (STARTTLS) * Server in uscita: * Server: smtp.inventati.org * Porta: 465 (SSL/TLS) / 587 (STARTTLS) * Il nome utente dev’essere identico al tuo indirizzo email. 3. SITI WEB Consigliamo di scaricare i contenuti dei siti web attualmente ospitati su A/I usando il protocollo WebDAV con un client opportuno. Ricordiamo che i parametri di accesso sono disponibili su https://www.inventati.org/docs/web/webdav#come-scaricare-il-tuo-sito Troverete un dump dei database SQL associati ai siti nella home directory dell’account WebDAV. SOFTWARE CONSIGLIATI * Rclone) * Cyberduck (MacOS)) * WinSCP (Windows)) 4. MAILING LIST E NEWSLETTER Agli admin di mailing list e newsletter è stata inviata una mail con la lista degli iscritti. se non l’avete ricevuta controllate la cartella dello spam o inviate una mail a help@inventati.org specificando il nome della lista (le mail verranno in ogni caso inviate solo agli indirizzi indicati come owner della lista in questione). Se volete ricevere l’archivio dei messaggi (se esiste) mandate una mail a help@inventati.org e vedremo cosa riusciamo a fare. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EN] In the next 10 days Autistici/Inventati’s services will be terminated. This means that all email accounts will stop working, so if you have used them to register on third-party services you will have to change your username (or your recovery email) for those services. This page includes instructions on how to export your data on services you have been using in A/I’s infrastructure. 1. NOBLOGS Blog owners and admins will receive an email with a link to download a backup of their blog, including posts and media uploads, in a format that will make it possible to migrate to a different WordPress platform. Here’s a step-to-step tutorial on how to import the downloaded data to a new WordPress site: STEPS TO IMPORT YOUR NOBLOGS BACKUP TO ANOTHER WORDPRESS SITE: * Log in to the dashboard of your new WordPress blog. * Hover over Tools in the left-hand menu and click Import. * Find WordPress at the bottom of the list and click Install Now. * Click Run Importer once the installation is completed. * Click Choose File to select your saved XML file from your computer. * Click Upload file and import. * Assign the posts to an existing author or create a new user in the next screen. * Check the box labeled Download and import file attachments to copy your images and media over. * Click Submit to start the import process. A success message will appear when it is done If you see an error message during the upload process (e.g. because files are too large) send an email to help@inventati.org. We can send instructions on how to increase the upload limits or split the XML file into smaller parts. (Alternatively you can look online for solutions.) It’s important to note that importing uploaded media will only be possible if noblogs.org is still accessible. Once Noblogs stops working, you’ll need to install a plugin in your new blog to change links of saved files. Note that once our infrastructure has been shut down, contacting us will net be possible. If you think you may need help with migration, please make sure to import your backup to your new WordPress blog before that date. 2. EMAIL While stored in our servers, your mail messages are encrypted: we cannot access their content, and only you can decrypt with your password. It is crucial to download your mailbox before A/I’s services are shut down, as it will be impossible to recover your messages afterwards. You cannot download messages through the webmail. In the web interface you can only select all your mail in bulk and delete it, to empty your maillbox. If you want to download your messages, you need to install a mail client in your computer. We recommend using Thunderbird. You can find a howto here: https://www.inventati.org/docs/mail/thunderbird We will not provide instructions on how to sync or export your mail to third-party and/or commercial email services. You can download your contacts list from the webmail, through the “Export” option in the “Contacts” menu. CONNECTION PARAMETERS * Protocol: IMAP * Incoming Mail: * Server: mail.inventati.org * Port 993 (SSL/TLS) / 143 (STARTTLS) * Outgoing Mail: * Server: smtp.inventati.org * Port: 465 (SSL/TLS) / 587 (STARTTLS) * The username should be your email address. 3. WEBSITES We recommend downloading the contents of websites hosted on A/I’s servers using the WebDAV protocol through an appropriate client. Access parameters can be found here: https://www.inventati.org/docs/web/webdav#how-to-download-your-website You’ll find a dump of the SQL databases associated to your website/s in the home directory of your WebDAV account. RECOMMENDED SOFTWARE * Rclone * Cyberduck (MacOS) * WinSCP (Windows) 4. MAILING LISTS AND NEWSLETTERS Mailing list and newsletter admins have already received an email with the list of subscribed users. If you haven’t received it, check your Spam folder or send an email to help@inventati.org, making sure to include the name of your list in your message. (Note that this information will only be sent to the email address of the list owner/s). If you enabled message archiving in your mailing list and you would like to download the archive, send an email to help@inventati.org and we’ll try to find a way of helping you.

[IT] Non appena abbiamo scoperto di essere finite sulla lista delle organizzazioni terroristiche globali, abbiamo scritto, dichiarato e promesso che avremmo cercato di resistere fino a che fosse stato possibile, che non ci saremmo arrese finché avessimo intravisto delle possibilità legali. Abbiamo mantenuto e difeso con orgoglio un’infrastruttura libera, riservata, autonoma e soprattutto partigiana. Per noi restare umani non è un semplice slogan. Significa che, prima di tutto, sono le utenti, le persone che costruiscono le reti umane a cui ci appoggiamo e le comunità che ci hanno inondato di messaggi e di amore e solidarietà, che devono essere tutelate. Non possiamo accettare uno scontro o prestarci a strumentalizzazioni che mettano in pericolo le loro vite, le vite dei loro cari, lasciandole alla mercé di autocrati, fascisti e agenzie che agiscono per vie extra-legali.La concreta possibilità di poter essere la causa di conseguenze penali o finanziarie per qualcuno che ci è vicino, o che anche solo interagisce con noi non ci permette altre scelte. A/I chiude. Il collettivo Autistici/Inventati chiude e sospenderà tutti i servizi a breve termine. Non c’è un modo facile per dirlo o per spiegarlo. Ogni giorno in cui siamo rimaste online a partire dal 26 agosto è stata una vittoria, ma noi dobbiamo fermarci oggi. Nessuna di noi ha simpatia per i gesti eroici e men che meno per i martiri, quindi non ne faremo e non ne chiederemo. In questo clima continuare a offrire i nostri servizi è solo un pericolo in più per le nostre utenti, e per tutte le persone che fanno parte delle nostre comunità. In un mondo di accuse slegate dai fatti non possiamo che aspettarci un’ulteriore repressione sproporzionata. Questo ci mette di fronte all’impossibilità di mantenere il nostro progetto originario: offrire strumenti sicuri e non mercificati. Sono stati 25 anni bellissimi. Sono stati una “bella storia”. Ora mollate il pc, uscite, lottate, abbracciatevi e non perdete il sorriso. Perché noi ci fermiamo. Ma la resistenza e le idee no. Restiamo umani. A brevissimo spiegheremo come salvare il contenuto dei blog, mail, siti e altri suggerimenti di tipo tecnico. Tenete comunque sempre presente che, così come è stato chiuso senza alcun preavviso il dominio autistici.org, nel frattempo potrebbero esserci altri problemi del genere che non siamo in grado di prevedere. Collettivo Autistici/Inventati [EN] The day we discovered we had been designated a global terrorist organization, we promised that we would try to resist as long as this was possible, that we would not back down as long as we could see options to stand our ground. For years, we have proudly maintained and defended a free, privacy-friendly, autonomous and politically committed infrastructure. “Stay human” is not an empty phrase to us. It means, above all, that we have a responsibility to protect our users, those who build the human networks we rely, and for the communities who flooded us with messages of support and solidarity. We cannot engage in a fight or expose ourselves to manipulations that threaten the lives of these people and their loved ones, leaving them at the mercy of autocrats, fascists and agencies that take extra-legal courses of action. The possibility that our work may cause legal and financial consequences to those who are close to us – or even only have something to do with us – leaves us no choice. A/I is shutting down. The Autistici/Inventati collective is shutting down and will soon discontinue all of the services we provide. There is no easy way to announce or explain this. Every day we stayed online after August 26, 2026, has been a victory, but now we are forced to stop. None of us holds eroic gestures and martyrs in high esteem, therefore we will demand no sacrifices. Not from us, not from anyone else. In this political climate, continuing to offer our services endangers our users and anyone who is part of our communities. In a world where allegations are disconnected from reality, we can only expect repression to be increasingly disproportionate. Under these circumstances, we are no longer able to maintain our original mission – offering secure and non-commercial digital tools. These 25 years have been amazing. It’s been an “incredible ride”. Now turn off your PCs, get out of your homes, struggle, hug each other and keep on smiling. We are stopping, but the Resistance and ideas do not stop. Stay human. We will soon send instructions on how to back up the content of your blogs, mailboxes and websites, along with more technical recommendations. But keep in mind that, just as the autistici.org domain was made unreachable without previous notice, in the next few days we might suffer similar issues that we may not be able to predict. Autistici/Inventati Collective

[IT] Venerdì 4 settembre Banca Etica ci ha comunicato in una riunione che eserciterà l’opzione di rescissione unilaterale dal contratto con l’Associazione AI ODV e che i fondi attualmente presenti sul conto frutto delle donazioni di migliaia di persone, associazioni e collettivi non saranno nella disponibilità dell’Associazione. Al di là delle molte parole spese dai dirigenti della Banca per lavarsi la coscienza, i fatti dicono che Banca Etica non solo si adegua al diktat dell’autocrate statunitense, ma ne rincara la dose mettendosi al suo stesso livello. E tutto questo senza alcun preavviso e senza darci alcuna possibilità di disporre dei fondi dell’Associazione in maniera adeguata o di trovare una soluzione condivisa. La decisione di Banca Etica di fatto ci mette nell’impossibilità di onorare i nostri impegni amministrativi, pagare i nostri fornitori ed erogare i servizi che le persone che hanno scelto A/I si aspettano. L’Associazione non ha altra soluzione che adire tutte le vie legali a nostra disposizione contro questa decisione, che riteniamo illegittima e immotivata (allo stato attuale delle cose), per fare in modo che le donazioni che le persone ci hanno affidato possano tornare a nostra disposizione. [EN] On Friday, September 4th, Banca Etica met the AI ODV association in a videocall and told us that they are going to shut down our bank account unilaterally, thus terminating our contract for good, and that the funds still on the account, which we raised through donations from thousands of people, organizations and collectives, will not be at the association’s disposal. Banca Etica has been spending many words to justify their actions and pretend they are on our side, but their actions counter all of their statements, clearly showing how they are just faithful servants of the US autocrat. And this has happened without us being notified or allowed to adequately use our funds or agree upon some kind of solution. Banca Etica’s decision has made it impossible for us to honour our administrative committments, to pay our service providers and to provide our users with the services they have chosen us for. The AI ODV association has no other option than to pursue all the legal tools available to counter this decision, which we deem illegitimate and unmotivated (at least as things stand at the present moment), so as to be able to access the funds people donated to us.

[IT] Dal 26 agosto, quando il Dipartimento del Tesoro statunitense, tramite OFAC, ci ha sanzionato come “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” (SDGT), sono successe tante cose, tanto si è mosso. Ed è solo l’inizio. Il 28 agosto il dominio autistici.org è sparito dalla faccia del globo terracqueo. Tutto questo, è bene sottolinearlo ogni volta, nonostante A/I non abbia compiuto alcun reato, né negli USA e tanto meno in Italia, e nonostante nessun giudice, USA o italiano, ci abbia mai contestato alcunché. Non siamo e mai saremo una struttura “neutra”. Siamo un collettivo antifascista e anticapitalista, che usa la tecnologia per rendere possibile una comunicazione libera in cui la privacy non sia un mero dato di marketing, ma un fatto reale. Abbiamo deciso di creare uno spazio unico per raccogliere quello che sta avvenendo dopo il 26 agosto, per permettere a tutta quella imprevedibile, caotica, magnifica comunità solidale di restare aggiornata più facilmente sulle conseguenze della decisione del governo USA e su quello che stiamo facendo. Su #KeepItFree troverete comunicati, aggiornamenti tecnici, rassegna stampa, solidarietà, campagne, lettere aperte, banner, petizioni e speriamo molto di più. Sono stati giorni convulsi, e i prossimi non saranno più leggeri. Per questo vi chiediamo di continuare a sostenerci e a costruire con noi una comunicazione resistente. Perché comunicare non è terrorismo. Perché noi siamo la Resistenza. Perché crediamo in infrastrutture solidali, antifasciste, ma soprattutto libere. KEEP THE INTERNET FREE! https://keepitfree.ai/it/announcements/presentiamo-https/keepitfree.ai/ [EN] Many things happened since August 26, 2026, when the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) at the US Department of the Treasury included us in their list of “Specially Designated Global Terrorists” (SDGT). This is just the beginning. On August 28 our autistici.org domain was wiped from the face of Earth. Bear in mind: all of this happened without A/I committing any crime, neither in Italy nor in the US, and without any prosecutor ever indicting us either for felonies or for misdemeanors. We are not a “neutral” structure, and we will never be. We are an anti-fascist and anti-capitalist collective, we use technology to enable independent communications and we believe privacy is not a mere marketing claim, but an actual value. We have now created a dedicated space to document what has been unfolding since August 26, to empower our unpredictable, chaotic and magnificent solidarity network by keeping it up to date with the consequences of the US government designation and our responses. On #KeepItFree you will find press releases, technical updates, news articles, expressions of solidarity, support campaigns, open letters, banners, petitions, and much more. These days have been crazy, and the next to come won’t be calmer. So we ask you to keep supporting us and stand with us in building a communication infrastructure that speaks Truth to Power. Speech is not terrorism. Expect resistance. KEEP THE INTERNET FREE! https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/announcing-https/keepitfree.ai/

[IT] Cominciamo dai fatti. A seguito dell’iscrizione del Collettivo A/I e dell’Associazione AI ODV nella lista delle organizzazioni terroristiche globali, dopo alcune telefonate informali Banca Etica ha limitato l’operatività del conto bancario dell’Associazione nella giornata di martedì 1 settembre 2026 alle 9 di mattina. La comunicazione rispetto a tale limitazione cautelativa in attesa di verifiche è avvenuta in forma scritta solo alle 13. Alle 16 dello stesso giorno si è svolta una riunione tra rappresentanti della Banca e team legale dell’Associazione AI ODV. Durante questo incontro Banca Etica ha confermato che la limitazione del conto rimarrà operativa quantomeno fino all’esito delle richieste interpretative formulate dalla Banca al MEF, a ABI e ad Assopopolari, nonché a consulenti legali esterni. A oggi, pertanto, Banca Etica non ha comunicato nessuna disponibilità a riattivare il conto. La nostra posizione in merito non cambia: riteniamo che la scelta di Banca Etica (che ha scelto e non è stata obbligata a limitare il conto) sia eccessiva in termini di zelo e nemmeno rientri in quanto previsto dal provvedimento statunitense. Chiediamo quindi che venga ripristinata immediatamente l’operatività del conto. Banca Etica e le istituzioni economico-finanziario-politiche di suo riferimento intendono adeguarsi alla prepotenza delle decisioni extragiudiziarie e al bullismo politico di un paese terzo che non ha su di esse alcuna giurisdizione? Noi pensiamo sia ora che alle parole di solidarietà seguano fatti concreti e azioni che vi corrispondano. Oppure si può scegliere di essere subordinati agli Stati Uniti come dimostrato in questi giorni. Collettivo Autistici/Inventati -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EN] Let’s start from the beginning. Following the designation of A/I Collective and Associazione AI ODV [ODV: nonprofit organization legally recognized in Italy] as Specially Designated Global Terrorist, Banca Etica, through a series of phone calls, communicated the temporarily suspension of the Association’s bank account, effective from Tuesday, September 9, 2026, at 9:00 AM (Italian time). The follow-up formal communication regarding the precautionary suspension of the account pending verification was delivered in written form only at 1:00 PM. Later on the same day, at 4:00 PM, the bank representatives met with Associazione AI ODV legal team. During this meeting, Banca Etica confirmed that the temporary suspension of the account will stay in place at least until they receive a response to the inquiries they forwarded to the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), the Italian Banking Association (ABI), and the Italian National Association of Cooperative Banks (Assopopolari), as well as to external legal consultants. Thus far, Banca Etica did not communicate any intention to reinstate the account. Our position on this matter does not change: Banca Etica’s decision to restrict the account in the absence of a legally binding request is excessive both in terms of over-compliance and with respect to the US designation itself. We thus demand our account to be immediately reinstated in full. Are Banca Etica and associated financial, economic, and political institutions willing to submit to the arrogance of extra-judiciary decisions and political bullying of a third country that bears no jurisdiction over them? This is the time for words of solidarity to be matched by concrete actions. The alternative is to choose to be subordinated to the United States. Autistici/Inventati Collective

[EN] Some hours ago the domain autistici.org became unreachable. Together with it, we also lost the mail server address mail.autistici.org and of course you won’t be able to receive any further emails on your @autistici.org email account. But not all is lost! 1. If you have an @autistici.org email address, we will soon restore your mail address on a new domain (we’re working on it!). Until this is done, you won’t be able to receive or send new emails, but you will still be able to access your account. You will find all your existing emails there. 2. If you have an email address on our servers using any other domain, you can now access your mailbox and receive and send emails both on the webmail or through your usual mail client. 3. To access your mailbox on the webmail, go to https://www.inventati.org and click the Login button in the top left corner of our home page. Then enter your normal email credentials to log in to your account. 4. For standalone clients (such us Thunderbird, etc.) you will only need to change the mail server address from mail.autistici.org to mail.inventati.org (for incoming email) and from smtp.autistici.org to smtp.inventati.org (for outbound email). Once you’re done, you will be able to log in to your mailbox as usual. We are trying to survive this apocalypse (as well as possible). Keep tight! We will keep updating you step by step on our blog. [IT] Stanotte il dominio autistici.org è andato giù. Per questo, il server di posta mail.autistici.org è diventato irraggiungibile e le mail dirette agli indirizzi @autistici.org non possono venire recapitate. Ma non tutto è perduto! 1. Se hai un indirizzo @autistici.org stiamo lavorando per trasferire la tua casella su un nuovo dominio (su questo seguiranno presto aggiornamenti!). Nel frattempo non potrai inviare o ricevere nuove mail, ma potrai comunque accedere al tuo account. Una volta dentro, troverai tutto il tuo archivio di posta. 2. Se hai un indirizzo di posta sui nostri server con qualsiasi altro dominio, puoi nuovamente accedere alla tua casella e spedire e ricevere mail usando la webmail o il tuo solito client di posta. 3. Per accedere alla webmail, apri la nostra home all’indirizzo https://www.inventati.org e clicca Login in alto a sinistra. Poi inserisci il tuo nome utente e la tua password per accedere al tuo account. 4. Se preferisci usare un client di posta (per esempio Thunderbird), non devi fare altro che cambiare l’indirizzo del server da mail.autistici.org a mail.inventati.org (per la posta in entrata) e da smtp.autistici.org a smtp.inventati.org (per la posta in uscita). A quel punto potrai usare il tuo account email come al solito. Stiamo cercando di fare del nostro meglio per sopravvivere a questa apocalisse. Tieni duro e abbi fiducia! Continueremo a pubblicare aggiornamenti via via che ne abbiamo.

Il 26 agosto 2026 il Dipartimento del Tesoro statunitense, tramite OFAC – il settore che gestisce e applica sanzioni economiche e finanziarie -, ha sanzionato Autistici/Inventati (A/I), collettivo italiano che dal 2001 fornisce infrastrutture digitali a movimenti e attivisti. Washington lo ha designato come Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) accusandolo di aver fornito supporto finanziario, materiale o tecnologico a terrorismo e a organizzazioni già sanzionate. A/I respinge le accuse e sostiene che la propria attività consiste nell’offrire strumenti per l’autodifesa digitale e infrastruttura per la libertà di comunicazione. La designazione statunitense non equivale automaticamente a una messa al bando di A/I in Italia o nell’Unione Europea. USA, UE e singoli stati dispongono di sistemi giuridici e liste antiterrorismo distinti. L’inserimento nella lista OFAC produce però una forte pressione sugli operatori che hanno rapporti con il soggetto designato: banche, piattaforme e fornitori di servizi si trovano costretti a interrompere rapporti con chi riceve sanzioni dell’OFAC per evitare ripercussioni penali. Così, a meno di 48 ore dalla pubblicazione della notizia, il 28 agosto, il dominio autistici.org è risultato non normalmente raggiungibile. Il collettivo ha ricondotto il problema al livello DNS e al registry del dominio .org, Public Interest Registry (PIR). Nonostante i server che ospitano i servizi legati al dominio autistici.org fossero attivi, il dominio stesso era stato reso irraggiungibile in quanto il sistema DNS (Domain Name System), che traduce il nome leggibile di tutti i siti e di tutti i servizi internet nell’indirizzo numerico dei relativi server, aveva smesso di funzionare per il dominio autistici.org. Così sono diventate irraggiungibili sia le migliaia di caselle di posta gestite da Autistici/Inventati che molti altri servizi forniti da A/I. Poche ore dopo, anche Noblogs.org, la piattaforma di blogging gestita dal collettivo Autistici/Inventati, è stata esposta a un problema di sicurezza che ha costretto i gestori di A/I a metterla temporaneamente offline per risolvere il problema tecnico. Oltre a intessere una fitta comunicazione con utenti, giornalisti e avvocati, il collettivo A/I si è subito messo all’opera per ripristinare tutti i servizi, e ieri a fine giornata il servizio di posta era nuovamente accessibile per quasi tutti gli utenti e la piattaforma Noblogs.org è tornata online anche se solo in lettura, vale a dire che i blog si possono leggere ma che i loro gestori non sono ancora in grado di pubblicare nuovi post. I tecnici di A/i sono ancora all’opera per ripristinare completamente i servizi il prima possibile, mettendoli ulteriormente in sicurezza. Le conseguenze della designazione americana non riguardano solo internet. Ieri sera, poco prima della chiusura degli uffici, Banca Etica ha comunicato al collettivo l’intenzione di chiudere il rapporto bancario in seguito all’inserimento di A/I nella lista OFAC. È un passaggio significativo perché mostra come una decisione presa da un’autorità statunitense possa produrre conseguenze concrete anche nei rapporti finanziari di un’organizzazione italiana., che ha considerato troppo rischioso mantenere i rapporti con A/I. Le conseguenze riferite dal collettivo non riguardano solo il conto bancario: anche PayPal ha deciso immediatamente di bloccare l’account di Autistici/Inventati. Il quadro complessivo è quindi quello di una possibile interruzione a cascata di servizi diversi: infrastruttura web, nomi a dominio, posta elettronica e strumenti finanziari. È proprio questa moltiplicazione dei punti di dipendenza che rende la vicenda diversa dal semplice oscuramento di una pagina web. Collettivo Autistici / Inventati Mail ufficio stampa: ai-press@squat.net Telefono: +4915730233591

[IT] Il 28 agosto 2026 qualcuno è riuscito ad avere accesso come utente privilegiato alla piattaforma noblogs.org, sfruttando una vulnerabilità del software che usiamo per fornire la piattaforma. L’accesso è durato per circa due ore, durante le quali è stata cambiata la homepage di noblogs.org e non possiamo escludere che l’autore possa aver avuto accesso al database delle utenti, che contiene la lista delle mail di chi gestisce i blog e le loro password (non in chiaro). Nessun indirizzo IP, né di chi scrive né di chi legge, è conservato nel server. Il nostro blog Cavallette pubblica in automatico sul nostro profilo Mastodon e quindi un post scritto dall’attaccante è stato ripubblicato anche lì. Consigliamo a chiunque avesse il plugin di Mastodon Autopost attivo sul blog, come noi, di cambiarsi immediatamente le password dell’account social, e di revocare l’autorizzazione di Noblogs da Impostazioni Profilo->Account->Authorized Apps. Per ora noblogs.org é UP ed online in sola lettura. Stiamo lavorando per ripristinare al più presto ed al meglio tutte le funzionalità di Noblogs! Stay tuned! Website: https://inventati.org Blog: https://cavallette.noblogs.org Social: https://mastodon.bida.im/@cavallette [EN] On August 28, 2026, someone managed to gain access to the noblogs.org platform as a privileged user, exploiting a vulnerability in the software we use to provide the platform. The access lasted for about two hours, during which the homepage of noblogs.org was changed, and we cannot rule out that the attacker may have had access to the users’ database, which contains the list of email addresses of the people who manage the blogs and their passwords (not in plain text). No IP addresses, neither of those who write nor of those who read, are stored on the server. Our blog Cavallette automatically publishes to our Mastodon profile, so a post written by the attacker was also reposted there. We recommend that anyone with the Mastodon Autopost plugin enabled on their blog, as we do, immediately change the password of their social account and revoke Noblogs’ authorization from Profile Settings → Account → Authorized Apps. For now, noblogs.org is UP and online in read-only mode. We are working to restore all of Noblogs’ functionalities as soon as possible and in the best possible way! Stay tuned! Website: https://inventati.org Blog: https://cavallette.noblogs.org Social: https://mastodon.bida.im/@cavallette

Ripubblichiamo (in inglese) un bel post di Sabot Media che ripercorre la nostra storia e la collega a quanto sta avvenendo con la nostra iscrizione nella lista delle organizzazioni globali terroristiche da parte dell’amministrazione americana. Ringraziamo Sabot Media perché ha fatto un lavoro eccellente e che ci aiuta a rispamiare tempo ed energie per la battaglia. We repost an english-language post by Sabot Media summarizing our history and connecting it to our recent designation as global terrorist organization by US administration. We thank Sabot Media for the excellent job and for sparing us some time and energy that we will use to fight back. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE SERVER CALLED PARANOIA: DEFEND AUTISTICI/INVENTATI BEFORE SEPTEMBER 25 For twenty-five years, an Italian hacker collective has built communications infrastructure designed to survive censorship, surveillance and police raids. On August 26, the United States designated it a terrorist organization. On September 25, the wind-down period ends. It should have been a dark and stormy night in an Italian hacklab. It was, annoyingly, a beautiful sunny Sunday. On March 3, 2001, roughly ten people gathered at the LOA hacklab in Milan around a computer assembled from discarded machinery. A bank had sold them an old server for the symbolic price of 15,000 lire, about eight dollars. They expanded it with scavenged components, including a hard drive pulled from someone’s home computer. Nobody arrived with a formal blueprint. Software packages were considered one at a time. Every decision was discussed until everyone agreed. Deliberately, the least technically experienced person was placed at the keyboard. The process took far longer than necessary because efficiency was not the only objective. Everyone was supposed to understand what they were building. That day, one participant later recalled, was when they declared: “A/I now exists.” They named the machine Paranoia. The following month it went online, carrying two domains and two intertwined histories: Autistici.org and Inventati.org. Twenty-five years later, on August 26, 2026, the United States designated Autistici/Inventati a Specially Designated Global Terrorist and placed it on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons list. The distance between those two events—from a recycled machine in a Milan hacklab to the machinery of the American national-security state—is the history of a collective that has spent a quarter century insisting upon one dangerous proposition: People should be able to communicate without first surrendering themselves to corporations or governments. The immediate threat now has a date. On September 25, the temporary U.S. authorization for institutions to wind down their relationships with A/I expires. Banks, technology companies, hosting providers and other institutions are being instructed to sever what remains. A/I built its infrastructure to survive the disappearance of a server. The United States is now attempting to make the collective economically and technologically untouchable. Join us as we explore what A/I is, its history, and what this newest attack might mean for the autonomous tech collective and the wider radical community. BEFORE A/I: ITALY’S UNDERGROUND INTERNET Autistici/Inventati did not appear from nowhere. Its roots run through more than a decade of Italian autonomous organizing, pirate radio, bulletin-board systems, squatted social centers, anti-capitalist movements and experimentation with computers as political tools. During the 1990s, networks such as the European Counter Network and Isole nella Rete provided online space for social movements when the internet remained unfamiliar to much of the public. Italy’s Hackmeetings brought programmers, activists, artists and the technologically curious together inside self-managed spaces. Hacklabs appeared in occupied social centers, where people could learn Linux, build networks and approach technical knowledge as something to be shared rather than sold. The future members of A/I came from several parts of this world. In Milan, people associated with the LOA hacklab used the name Autistici to describe their intense fascination with technology and their desire to expose the politics concealed inside it. In Florence, the Inventati project was more oriented toward communication, publishing and movement organizing. Its projects included Stampa Clandestina, a newspaper intended to be pasted directly onto city walls, and Spia la Spia, an effort to map surveillance cameras in public places. People from Bologna and elsewhere were also involved. Many participated in the early development of Indymedia Italy, part of the international open-publishing network that allowed protesters and ordinary participants to report events without waiting for professional journalists to mediate them. The different groups shared a problem. Movements increasingly needed websites, mailing lists and private email, but independent infrastructure remained scarce. The existing European Counter Network was carrying too much of that burden. Commercial providers offered greater capacity, but at the price of money, dependence, surveillance and eventual censorship. In November 2000, Inventati sent the Milanese hackers an encrypted email asking to meet. The message was treated like something out of an amateur spy film: PGP keys, carefully arranged recognition instructions, a secret time and place. Then the Florentines arrived two hours late in a legendary rust bucket called the General Lee, honking outside the squat while police monitoring the building watched in bewilderment. The agreed-upon historical fact is that everyone eventually ate at a pizzeria called La Balena. Over dinner, the Florentines revealed their allegedly seditious plan: Build another autonomous server. The intention was not to replace existing movement infrastructure with a new central provider. It was to multiply it. If there were thousands of autonomous servers, they reasoned, no single raid or seizure could shut down everyone’s communications. Autistici supplied much of the technical knowledge. Inventati brought its experience with publishing, cultural work and movement communication. Together they became Autistici/Inventati, usually shortened to A/I. The collective’s legal association was called Investici, but A/I never became a conventional organization. It had no coordinator, official leader or permanent spokesperson. Decisions were made collectively rather than by majority vote. Nobody was paid. Its resources came from voluntary donations, benefit events and the labor of the people maintaining it. The dual name was deliberate. A/I was a Janus-faced creature: one face technical, the other communicative; one facing the machine, the other facing the movements that needed it. THE SERVER THAT LOCKED ITSELF OUT The birth was not entirely glorious. On the second day of Paranoia’s existence, someone entered an inverted firewall command and accidentally instructed the machine to reject every connection not originating from itself. The server could communicate only with the server. The collective found this so perfectly on-brand that it printed the mistake on a T-shirt. That combination of technical seriousness and refusal of self-importance became part of A/I’s character. Later servers received names including Chernobyl, Astio—“Grudge”—Rivolta, Contumacia and Latitanza: Revolt, Contumacy and Life on the Run. Behind the jokes was a developed political position. Communication should be free and accessible. Knowledge grows through being shared. Software is not neutral simply because it operates in a supposedly virtual world. The systems through which people speak determine who can speak, who can listen, who owns the record and who can be silenced. A/I began providing websites, private email, mailing lists, newsletters and chat. Its services eventually expanded to include Noblogs, file sharing, audio and video conferencing, streaming, anonymous remailing and other communications tools—all without advertising or commercial data extraction. Its manifesto describes the project in explicitly political terms. A/I is antifascist, anti-capitalist and antimilitarist. It promotes free software, encryption, pseudonymity and the independent circulation of knowledge and cultural work. It reserves its limited, volunteer-run resources for people and projects broadly compatible with those principles rather than businesses, political parties, organized religions or institutions already possessing the means to make themselves heard. A/I was never a politically neutral commercial host. But providing infrastructure is not the same act as authoring everything transmitted through it. Political affinity is not operational control. Giving someone an email account does not mean writing every message they later send. That distinction is central to the attack now being made against it. GENOA: INFRASTRUCTURE UNDER FIRE Only months after Paranoia went online, the G8 came to Genoa. Many A/I participants were also involved with Indymedia Italy. They helped construct the movement’s media center, laying cables, configuring servers and building workstations through which protesters could report what was happening across the city. What followed was historic: enormous demonstrations, the police killing of Carlo Giuliani, indiscriminate beatings in the streets, torture and abuse inside the Bolzaneto barracks and the nighttime raid on the Diaz school. Official narratives competed with photographs, recordings and firsthand testimony transmitted through independent infrastructure. Genoa became one of the earliest major demonstrations to be documented from nearly every direction by its participants rather than exclusively through institutional media. For A/I, it was also what the collective later called a “traumatic communion.” Its members experienced the same violence together while maintaining systems through which evidence of that violence could escape. After Genoa, A/I was no longer merely an interesting technical experiment. It had become trusted movement infrastructure. Demand grew rapidly. By 2003, A/I hosted more than 2,000 users, 205 websites and 269 discussion lists. Hosting those services for free was becoming unsustainable, while commercial hosting would cost thousands of euros annually. The collective answered with the KAOS tours: traveling gatherings combining benefit events, parties, public discussions and practical workshops. A/I members taught people how to configure servers, encrypt communications, edit and distribute video, create digital archives and stream audio. The tours raised money, but their deeper purpose was political education. The collective did not want to become a group of invisible experts performing magic for passive users. It wanted the community to understand the machinery upon which it increasingly depended. Every subsequent attack on A/I would produce a variation on this response: Disclose what happened. Repair the damage. Share the lesson. Build something harder to destroy. TRENITALIA DISCOVERS THE STREISAND EFFECT A/I’s first major legal confrontation came in 2004. A design collective called Zenmai had created a website parodying the Italian railway company Trenitalia. It copied the appearance of the company’s website while denouncing Trenitalia’s involvement in transporting tanks and other military supplies during the invasion of Iraq. Trenitalia demanded the page’s removal, damages and publication of notices in two major newspapers at a projected cost of approximately €20,000. A court initially ordered A/I to take the parody down. The internet responded by reproducing it everywhere. Trenitalia then demanded that A/I remove links to the mirrors as well—an argument raising the absurd possibility that linking to disputed material could make any search engine responsible for it. A/I appealed. On September 14, 2004, the court ruled that the website was protected satire grounded in factual controversy. The page returned, and Trenitalia was ordered to pay A/I’s legal expenses. It was an extraordinary victory for a small volunteer collective. But while A/I fought visible censorship in court, a more dangerous operation was taking place without its knowledge. THE ARUBA CRACKDOWN By then, A/I’s server was housed at the commercial provider Aruba in Arezzo. On June 15, 2004, Italian police arrived at Aruba under orders from a Bologna prosecutor. The company’s technicians shut down A/I’s machine and allowed police to copy material from its disks. Investigators obtained its cryptographic certificates and may have installed equipment capable of intercepting traffic. A/I was told that the interruption resulted from an electrical problem. The collective discovered the truth almost a year later, and only by accident. In May 2005, A/I was ordered to close the mailbox used by the Italian Anarchist Black Cross, Crocenera Anarchica, amid a sprawling investigation involving allegations of anarchist conspiracy and subversion. A/I complied with the court order and requested the underlying case documents. Those documents contained messages that investigators should not have been able to possess. Buried in a footnote was the explanation: police had gone to Aruba the previous year and acquired access to A/I’s server. An operation purportedly concerned with one mailbox had potentially compromised thousands of accounts and tens of thousands of mailing-list subscribers. Among those affected were lawyers and technical experts working with the Genoa Legal Forum. Police may therefore have gained access to confidential defense communications concerning prosecutions arising from police conduct at the G8. The violation exposed a brutal truth. A/I could operate its own server, configure it carefully and refuse to retain identifying logs—but the physical machine remained in someone else’s building. A commercial provider could open the door, surrender its contents and conceal what had happened. A/I removed the machine from Aruba, cleaned it and restored essential services. Parliamentary questions were raised in Italy and at the European level. The collective traveled through Italy and Europe explaining the breach. Most importantly, it rebuilt the network. PLAN R*: REPRESSION BECOMES ARCHITECTURE The result was Plan R*, launched in October 2005: a network of “resistant communication.” Instead of concentrating A/I’s services on one machine, the collective distributed encrypted data and functions across servers in several countries. Public-facing machines could be replaced. Services could move when hardware was seized or a provider became hostile. The loss of one node would no longer expose or silence the entire community. R* meant replication, redundancy, resistance and other words beginning with R. Its architecture was conceived not merely to survive mechanical failure but to withstand political attack. A/I did not claim it could guarantee perfect security. On the contrary, it repeatedly warned users never to entrust their safety blindly to any provider, including A/I. It minimized logs and identifying information because information that does not exist cannot easily be seized. It encouraged users to encrypt their own communications because even the strongest server architecture could not compensate for unsafe individual practices. The collective transformed a covert surveillance operation into an infrastructure lesson. Repression became architecture. THE VATICAN, A SATIRICAL VIDEO GAME AND NORWAY The pressure continued. In 2007, an Italian politician demanded action against Operation: Pedopriest, a satirical browser game criticizing the Catholic Church’s efforts to conceal sexual abuse by clergy. Its creator temporarily removed the game to protect the hosting provider. A/I then hosted a copy. Following a complaint from an unidentified child-protection organization, an American provider disconnected the entire Noblogs server. After consulting attorneys, the provider concluded that the satire was lawful in the United States and restored the machine. Plan R* kept the disputed material accessible elsewhere and limited the wider interruption. By then, A/I had become an important refuge from the emerging commercial social web. Noblogs offered independent publishing without advertising, data mining or demands that people attach their legal identities to everything they said. Its users included movement organizations, personal writers, dissidents, artists and NGO workers operating in dangerous environments. In 2008, A/I received Italy’s Winston Smith “Privacy Hero” award for creating free communications infrastructure resistant to censorship despite scarce resources, technical attacks and repeated judicial interventions. Then, on November 6, 2010, Norwegian police copied an A/I server’s hard drives at Italy’s request. The investigation originated with threats and antifascist graffiti directed at members of the neo-fascist CasaPound organization. Authorities were seeking information concerning one mailbox. A/I had already explained that it possessed neither subscriber identities nor activity logs, but investigators apparently wanted to determine whether that was true. Thousands of accounts were copied in the process. Plan R* restored the affected services elsewhere within approximately two hours. Within twenty-four hours, the network was operating normally. The seized disks were encrypted and yielded no useful identifying information. The operation became a public scandal in Norway. Lawyers, journalists and technology organizations questioned why Norwegian police had copied thousands of people’s private communications in response to an inadequately explained foreign request. The underlying Italian investigation was eventually dropped. Where another organization might have interpreted repeated raids as proof that its project was impossible, A/I interpreted them as confirmation that the project was necessary. Its history is documented in the collective’s book, +KAOS: Ten Years of Hacking and Media Activism, and its own history of the collective. AUGUST 26, 2026 The newest attack is of a different order. On August 26, the U.S. State Department designated Autistici/Inventati a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. At the same time, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control placed A/I on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons list under Executive Order 13224. This is not simply a condemnatory government statement. It activates one of the world’s most powerful systems of economic exclusion. The United States alleges that A/I supplies specialized digital architecture, encrypted communications and hosting to antifascist groups and other radical movements, including organizations already designated by the United States. Treasury’s public announcement focuses upon the services A/I provides: foreign-hosted websites, encrypted email, chat, video conferencing and the digital architecture supporting Noblogs. It describes A/I’s antifascist and antimilitarist politics, its practice of selecting projects compatible with those politics and its provision of infrastructure used by the PKK. Treasury then treats the provision of that infrastructure as material or technological support for terrorism. (U.S. Treasury announcement) The State Department’s accompanying case goes further, presenting attacks, communiqués and publications that it says passed through A/I infrastructure. Its examples include alleged railway and pipeline sabotage in Europe, attacks on energy infrastructure, Rose City Antifa, resistance to Atlanta’s proposed police-training center, Jane’s Revenge and publications carrying statements attributed to armed organizations. (State Department designation) The government’s public statements do not show that A/I planned those actions, selected targets, transferred weapons, directed the cited groups or authored the material hosted on its systems. They do not establish when A/I learned of any particular act or whether it knew about it before it occurred. Instead, the designation advances a broader and more consequential proposition: Building communications infrastructure for radical movements can itself be treated as terrorism. That theory collapses the distinction between a provider and a user; between political affinity and operational control; between protecting privacy and concealing a crime; between maintaining a publishing platform and authoring everything published through it. A/I has never claimed to be politically neutral. It built infrastructure precisely because radical movements needed somewhere to speak, publish and organize beyond corporate and state control. The United States is now using that purpose as evidence against it. WHAT HAPPENS ON SEPTEMBER 25 Because A/I is now on the SDN list, all of its property or interests in property within the United States—or possessed or controlled by a U.S. person—must be blocked and reported to OFAC. Unless an exemption or license applies, U.S. people and institutions are generally prohibited from providing or receiving funds, goods or services involving A/I. The restrictions can reach transactions passing through the United States even when the parties are located elsewhere. OFAC has issued a temporary license allowing transactions ordinarily necessary to wind down existing relationships with A/I until 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on September 25, 2026. Payments owed to the collective cannot simply be released to it; they must be placed in blocked accounts. After the deadline, covered transactions require another applicable authorization. September 25 is therefore the date by which American companies and individuals are expected to separate themselves from A/I. The consequences may include the loss of: * Bank accounts and payment processing. * U.S.-linked donations and fundraising services. * Hosting, cloud infrastructure and upstream network services. * Domain registration and related technical services. * Certificate, security and email-delivery accounts. * Software and communications services. * Relationships with non-U.S. providers frightened by American secondary sanctions. * Access for people in the United States who currently use A/I’s services. Foreign companies are not automatically governed by every prohibition imposed upon Americans. But OFAC warns that foreign financial institutions can face secondary-sanctions exposure for knowingly facilitating significant transactions on behalf of a designated entity. That warning may do as much damage as direct enforcement. A European bank, registrar or hosting company may not know precisely what American law demands of it. Its compliance department may simply decide that maintaining a relationship with a small Italian anarchist collective is not worth the perceived risk. Institutions frequently over-comply. Providers may close accounts or withdraw infrastructure even when the law does not clearly require them to do so. Organizations may remove links, avoid correspondence or terminate unrelated relationships merely because A/I’s name now appears on a terrorism blacklist. That is how American sanctions acquire worldwide force: not only through legal jurisdiction, but through institutional fear. THE WIDER TARGET IS THE COMMUNITY AROUND THE SERVER The designation may be directed at A/I, but its effects will not stop at the collective. A/I’s infrastructure is used by writers, organizers, researchers, artists, movement publications and people who chose it precisely because commercial platforms were unsafe, politically hostile or designed to extract their data. Those users are not automatically sanctioned because they have an A/I address or published on Noblogs. But once the provider itself is placed on a terrorism blacklist, ordinary association can be converted into a risk signal. A bank may scrutinize a payment. An email provider may downgrade or block delivery. An employer, border agent or investigator may treat an address as suspicious. A journalist may hesitate to contact a source. A researcher may avoid an archive. A new user may decide that opening an account is too dangerous. None of this requires the government to prosecute every person involved. The designation can produce its own perimeter of fear. That is one reason this otherwise inexplicable move may be useful to the state even if A/I remains online. Earlier attacks tried to reach the collective through particular machines, mailboxes and providers. A/I answered by distributing its systems, encrypting its disks and retaining less information. Those practices made conventional seizure and surveillance less productive. Sanctions attack a different layer: the relationships that allow infrastructure to exist. Rather than breaking the encryption, the government can pressure banks, registrars, data centers, software companies and users to isolate the people operating it. Rather than prove in court that each user committed an offense, it can make continued contact costly and legally uncertain. This is surveillance-state power operating through private intermediaries. The government does not need to place an officer inside every server room when compliance departments, payment processors and platforms can be induced to police the network themselves. Each institution will draw its own defensive boundary, often wider than the law requires. Some may demand more identity documents, retain more logs, monitor political content or refuse privacy-preserving projects altogether. Others may quietly close accounts and provide no meaningful avenue of appeal. Enforcement becomes dispersed across companies whose decisions are difficult to see, challenge or even document. The resulting harm is not limited to censorship. It can change the architecture of movement communication. Small autonomous providers may conclude that serving controversial communities invites existential risk. Larger platforms may point to the designation as another reason to expand identity verification, automated moderation and data retention. Users may migrate from trusted movement infrastructure to commercial systems that are easier to monitor, subpoena and map. The state gains leverage even when it gains no plaintext from A/I’s encrypted disks: people separate themselves, providers collect more information and the social relationships surrounding dissent become easier to observe. The precedent also reaches beyond explicitly anarchist or antifascist projects. If political alignment with users, privacy protections and the hosting of controversial publications can be assembled into a case that infrastructure itself constitutes support, then encrypted mail providers, radical publishers, community archives, VPNs, federated social networks, legal-support projects and other independent hosts all have reason to pay attention. The immediate facts and laws would differ in every case. The danger lies in normalizing the category: a communications provider no longer treated as a conduit or publisher with its own rights and responsibilities, but as a participant in every act the government attributes to anyone using its systems. That does not mean the designation is secretly about every A/I user, or that every possible consequence will occur. The government has not publicly explained its internal strategy beyond the allegations in its announcements. But the structure of the action is visible. It replaces a narrow accusation against identifiable conduct with a broad penalty against infrastructure; shifts enforcement from a courtroom to a global web of cautious institutions; and makes uncertainty itself an instrument of control. The immediate objective may be to disable A/I. The wider effect is to warn anyone building communications beyond corporate and state supervision that the shelter they provide can be recast as evidence against them. CAN A/I SURVIVE THIS? A/I has seen state repression coming for miles. Its entire infrastructure assumes that: * Servers will be seized. * Providers will cooperate with police. * Governments will demand information about users. * Corporations will disconnect controversial material. * Individual machines and locations will become unavailable. * Data and services must therefore be encrypted, distributed and replaceable. That preparation matters. A/I is based in Italy, not the United States. Its infrastructure is internationally distributed. Its services are maintained by technically sophisticated volunteers. It avoids dependence on any single provider, minimizes identifying information and has decades of experience restoring services during emergencies. It has no shareholders, corporate headquarters or conventional payroll. Its relatively modest operating costs and volunteer structure give the state fewer familiar pressure points. There is little reason to assume that the website, mail system or Noblogs will simply disappear on September 25. A/I may be better equipped to survive a seized or disconnected machine than nearly any communications project of comparable size. But this is not another server raid. Plan R* was built to survive machines disappearing. It cannot, by itself, prevent banks from blocking money, registrars from suspending domains or companies around the world from withdrawing services because they fear American penalties. The designation targets the connective tissue around the servers: * Banking. * Donations. * Domains. * Data-center contracts. * Bandwidth. * Certificates. * Software dependencies. * International institutional relationships. A/I has survived technical isolation before. The United States is now attempting financial and institutional excommunication. Its core services may be resilient. Its ability to fund them, replace infrastructure and participate in the broader technological system is at considerably greater risk. What happens after September 25 will therefore depend not only upon the architecture surrounding A/I’s data, but upon the solidarity surrounding A/I itself. SEPTEMBER 25 IS NOT A DEADLINE FOR SILENCE The designation is designed to isolate. The answer must be informed, independent and disciplined solidarity. People in the United States should not improvise donations, disguise payments or route resources through another person, organization, currency or country. That could create sanctions exposure for the supporter, the intermediary and A/I itself. The prohibitions can also extend beyond money. Coordinated technical assistance, translation, advocacy, event organization or other services provided to a designated entity may create legal risk. But September 25 is not a deadline for silence. Independent reporting, criticism, protest, education and political advocacy remain possible. People can tell A/I’s history, examine and challenge the government’s claims, contact journalists and civil-liberties organizations, preserve public materials and independently organize against the criminalization of resistant communications infrastructure. The practical distinction is between speaking and acting independently about A/I and providing funds or coordinated services to A/I. The exact boundaries can be complicated. Anyone contemplating fundraising, replacement infrastructure, public mirroring or direct technical assistance should obtain qualified sanctions counsel. A February 2025 civil-liberties primer on material support and OFAC restrictions also warns that lawful or protected activity can still attract surveillance, investigation, immigration consequences or civil litigation. Supporters approached by law enforcement should decline to answer questions and speak with an attorney. This article is reporting and political analysis, not legal advice. WHAT SUPPORTERS CAN DO BEFORE SEPTEMBER 25 Tell the history. Share A/I’s story: the hacklabs, Paranoia, Genoa, the KAOS tours, the Trenitalia victory, the Aruba breach, Plan R*, Noblogs and the Norwegian seizure. Do not allow the government’s description to become the only publicly available account of what A/I is. Build a public defense coalition. Ask independent server collectives, digital-rights organizations, hacklabs, free-software projects, radical libraries, independent publishers, journalists, attorneys, researchers and former users to respond publicly. Preserve the archive. Servers can be seized. Domains can be suspended. Hosts can panic. Back up publicly accessible and historically valuable Noblogs writing, along with A/I’s manifestos, technical documents, legal records and movement history. Record source URLs, authorship, publication dates and retrieval dates. Respect privacy, copyright and removal requests. Do not access private accounts or circumvent security. Personal preservation, research archiving and ordinary journalism are not the same as publicly operating replacement infrastructure; anyone considering a public mirror should first seek qualified advice. Document over-compliance. Record companies, banks, registrars, platforms and institutions terminating services or removing material. Preserve notices and correspondence. The public record should show how far the designation reaches beyond its formal language. Demand answers. Ask digital-rights groups, European institutions and public officials whether they will permit American sanctions to dismantle an Italian communications collective. Ask what protection exists for European infrastructure, users and archives. Organize independently. Hold public discussions about autonomous infrastructure, sanctions, surveillance and material-support law. Publish explainers. Teach encryption. Support independent civil-liberties work opposing expansive terrorism designations. Prepare lawful material support. A/I has historically survived through voluntary donations, but U.S. supporters should not send or reroute money while the designation applies without a clear authorization. Digital-rights and legal organizations can independently investigate lawful support mechanisms, licensing and potential delisting proceedings. Listen carefully to A/I’s public response while keeping advocacy legally independent. The collective’s statement should inform how its history and circumstances are described. Any coordinated campaign, fundraising channel or direct service requires separate legal consideration. The immediate objective is to make A/I impossible to quietly disappear. THE NETWORK CALLED SOLIDARITY A/I has survived corporations demanding censorship, covert police access, confiscated disks, hostile providers, parliamentary attacks and international investigations. The Trenitalia case produced mirrors and a legal victory. The Aruba breach produced Plan R*. Provider censorship produced redundancy. The Norwegian seizure demonstrated that the network could recover in hours. Each attempt to isolate the collective spread knowledge about how censorship and surveillance operate. Each attack became an opportunity to teach more people how to protect one another. The United States has now transformed that history into a global test. At stake is not only the survival of one Italian hacker collective. It is whether maintaining infrastructure for radical movements can itself be treated as terrorism; whether privacy can be redefined as concealment; whether refusing to collect identifying information can be presented as obstruction; and whether a provider can be held politically and legally responsible for every text, tactic and claim transmitted through its machines. A/I has spent twenty-five years preparing for the day when a server disappears. It knows how to replace a machine, move a service, restore encrypted data and continue operating after police or providers pull a plug. The United States is attempting something different. It is trying to frighten banks, hosts, registrars, infrastructure providers and supporters around the world into abandoning the collective. Whether that succeeds will depend partly upon A/I’s architecture. It will also depend upon us. Between now and September 25, preserve the history. Share the story. Build the coalition. Document the isolation. Teach the tools. Prepare a lawful defense. Do not allow the state to quietly establish that building privacy-preserving infrastructure for dissent is itself an act of terrorism. Twenty-five years ago, ten people gathered around a recycled machine and deliberately took too long configuring it because everyone in the room was supposed to learn. That remains the lesson. Do not leave the knowledge with experts. Do not leave the infrastructure in one place. Do not leave the targeted to stand alone. The first server was called Paranoia. The network it created was called solidarity. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public statement from Autistici/Inventati: Today we were made aware that the US Government has targeted a small, volunteer-run, technology collective from Italy with disproportionate sanctions as anyone can read in the Treasury Department Statement, the State Department Statement and the related Executive Order. We deny all allegations included in the statements, while we strongly affirm our dedication to providing a platform of tools for digital self-defense, addressing the need of free communication for activists and other individuals, groups and associations. We will not back down, we will keep doing what we have been doing all these years and we will do whatever is in our possibility to counter the false allegations made by a politically desperate administration with the sole intention of swaying people and media attention away from their own violence and warmongering. Antifascism and anticapitalism are not terrorism. Protesting is not terrorism. And everyone has the right to speak out and to struggle for humanity. Autistic/Invented Collective — “Socializing knowledge without establishing power” Stay human. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Download the A/I book , +KAOS, on the history of the collective’s work, available for free. Download our Media Kit for social media graphics, archival guides, press briefs, templates, and flyers if you or your organization would like to show solidarity with A/I or learn more.

[ENGLISH VERSION BELOW] Oggi abbiamo appreso che il governo degli Stati Uniti ha deciso di inserire un piccolo collettivo di volontari e attivisti digitali italiani nell’elenco delle organizzazioni terroristiche mondiali meritevoli di sanzioni, come si può leggere nelle dichiarazioni del Dipartimento del Tesoro, in quelle del Dipartimento di Stato e nel relativo Ordine Esecutivo emesso. Noi respingiamo al mittente tutte le accuse presentate in tali dichiarazioni e allo stesso tempo riaffermiamo con forza il nostro impegno nel fornire una piattaforma di strumenti di auto-difesa digitale per permettere ad attivist*, singole persone, gruppi e associazioni di comunicare liberamente.  Non ci fermeremo e continueremo a fare quello che abbiamo sempre fatto, opponendoci in ogni modo alle accuse false costruite da un’amministrazione politicamente disperata che ha il solo scopo di distrarre le persone e i media dalla propria violenza e dal proprio desiderio di guerra.  L’antifascismo e l’anticapitalismo non sono terrorismo. Protestare non è terrorismo. E tutti hanno il diritto di prendere parola e di lottare per tutta l’umanità.  Collettivo Autistici / Inventati — “Socializzare saperi senza fondare poteri” Stay human [ENGLISH VERSION] Today we were made aware that the US Government has targeted a small, volunteer-run, technology collective from Italy with disproportionate sanctions as anyone can read in the Treasury Department Statement, the State Department Statement and the related Executive Order. We deny all allegations included in the statements, while we strongly affirm our dedication to providing a platform of tools for digital self-defense, addressing the need of free communication for activists and other individuals, groups and associations. We will not back down, we will keep doing what we have been doing all these years and we will do whatever is in our possibility to counter the false allegations made by a politically desperate administration with the sole intention of swaying people and media attention away from their own violence and warmongering.  Antifascism and anticapitalism are not terrorism. Protesting is not terrorism. And everyone has the right to speak out and to struggle for humanity.  Collettivo Autistici / Inventati — “Socializzare saperi senza fondare poteri” Stay human

[ITA] Un recente (circa 10 giorni fa) aggiornamento dei nostri servizi di posta pare stia causando dei problemi con alcuni account, in combinazione con Thunderbird. I sintomi variano: non si vede più l’elenco dei folder, oppure lo si vede, ma non compaiono i messaggi nuovi – può sembrare che non stiate più ricevendo posta. La posta sta venendo consegnata regolarmente! Il problema è nell’interazione con i client. I messaggi nuovi si possono vedere, per esempio, utilizzando la webmail. Stiamo indagando per risolvere il problema. [ENG] It appears that a recent (about 10 days ago) major upgrade of our email systems is causing some issues to a subset of users, primarily when using Thunderbird as their email client. Symptoms vary: TB might stop showing the list of folders, or perhaps it will show it, but then the INBOX folder will not display new messages. It might look like you’re no longer receiving any email. Email is being delivered without issues! The problem is with the client. You can, for example, access new messages by using the webmail. We’re investigating to attempt to resolve this issue.

Scavando nei meandri dei nostri archivi abbiamo ripescato questa fantastica produzione di ZeroCalcare per sostenere A/I. Ve la rigiriamo a distanza di più di 20 anni, ricordandovi che potete sostenerci in tanti modi, compreso il 5×1000! PS: rimanete sintonizzati perché all’hackmeeting tornano… LE MAGLIETTE (e le spillette pure, clamoroso!)!