The FSFE justly drew the line at providing private information of supporters. How many other customers of Nexi simply handed over such data 'because audit'?

As an Italian living in another EU country, I always thought that the amount of (broken) bureaucracy of Italy was not particularly worse. However this story comes after a couple more I heard this week, in a line of absurd practice possibly due to absurd regulations.

Maybe now more F/OSS supporters will understand the need of Bitcoin/Monero

> Over the past few months, our former payment provider Nexi S.p.A. (“Nexi”) requested access to private data, which we understood to be specifically the usernames and passwords of our supporters.

I must be missing something, but why is there an expectation that clear text passwords would even be known?

Everytime people say bitcoin has no use case, I'd like to point them to cases like this.

Reminds me of the famous "Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants? [1]

[1] https://serverfault.com/questions/293217/our-security-audito...