The article makes a good point. These websites didn't have encryption of their data. The data likely just existed in plaintext, easy to extract as soon as the website was compromised. I've said this before, this is to be expected. This is a baptism of fire moment for conservative social media - these trials, bad as they are, will teach lessons about infosec that developers will need to learn going forward. Watching conservatives flock to insecure technologies like these has been like nails on a chalkboard for me. I would really like to see adaptation - conservatives learning these lessons and responding by beefing up the security of their websites. For me, the ideal situation would be for us to move to overlay networks that allow for us to obfuscate our identities, and to protect against things like DDoS (e.g. by being distributed) - like Tor and ZeroNet. The ClearNet may be more accessible, and I acknowledge that conservatives are now known in tech spaces to be the ones now leading in pushing these new distributed and privacy-supporting methods, but what we need is a real meaningful exodus. These platforms exist as bulwarks against the political actors that would suppress us; we just need to make effective use of them. Some of us are - heck, even the Daily Stormer themselves fell back on a .onion site once they found themselves unable to secure a web hosting service. We need digital literacy - we need, frankly speaking, people who can teach others how to use tools like Tails OS, Whonix, and Qubes OS (and their Whonix VM template) to provide secure ways of trustlessly browsing the internet and publishing content. That needs to be the ideal: Trust-free communication. No trusting IPs, because they can be shutdown; no trusting centralised social media services, because they can be supressed (instead, look for peer-to-peer options); not even trusting payment providers, because even MasterCard and Visa have been mobilised for political effect (proving that the previously-held utopia of a "cashless society" is actually dystopian).