I didn’t realize that was a German thing - anyone who’s done much renting of bare metal servers is likely to have encountered the term, but that seems to be because some of the biggest global providers of those services are German, like Hetzner and 1&1/Ionos.
> Since 1995 we have had 3 of our members arrested (0 convicted), we have had visits by the BKA (Germany’s FBI) and BND (Germany’s NSA), we were blackmailed by the British GCHQ and harassed and intimidated by many others
