The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati Before September 25

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.

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