A massive cock-up
Cock.li has since moved to Flokinet.is, an Icelandic-based host with servers in Iceland, Finland, and Romania (where Canfield himself lives). He hopes to restore it to full operation later on Friday or Saturday.
In a video published on Friday (see above) to his users and supporters, Canfield said he’s still baffled as to exactly what is going on.
“My lawyer, Jesselyn Radack, has been in contact with the German prosecution office and I can share with you an update on her office,” he said in the video. “She has been trying to get information as to what’s going on but has been tossed between eight—that’s not hyperbole—eight different offices. All of which either have refused to give her information, or pointed her to a different office, or requested the name that was used on the confiscation order, which is unavailable to me or my lawyer, because Hetzner, cock.li’s former host, refused to provide a copy of that confiscation order to me or my lawyer.”
In an e-mail that Canfield provided to Ars, a Hetzner representative wrote: “Unfortunately we can not provide any further information about that case, all information you will get from prosecution Zwickau. Please be patient for that.” For its part, Hetzner also did not immediately respond to Ars’ request for comment.
For now, the cock.li administrator seems wholly undeterred.
“Rest assured this is not making me waver in my dedication to my cock joke on the Internet,” Canfield concluded. “And your resistance only makes my penis harder. That’s the fact, and I will do everything that I can as long as I’m free and I’m here, to keep my site online. This has brought me a newfound dedication to my users and to privacy and security which I used to only hold for myself and I now hold with everyone else that entrusts me with their email. It is my hope that my users understand that I am doing everything that I can to make sure cock.li is a safe place to store your dick pics and whatever else you want to host on my email provider as long as it’s legal and make sure that this mass invasion of privacy of my users never happens again.”