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  1. Re:come on! by Neophytus · · Score: 1 · on 'Extreme' Web Sites Under Fire From UK Police
    There must be accountability on the web. Period.
    Tell that to these people. Incase you didn't know, that company that was raided the otherday was not only a spamhaus but a safe haven for zombies and other internet scum. Blockquoth the AHBL:
    Breaking News! Ding Dong, Foonet's Gone!
         Perhaps the blackest of the black hat networks is finally gone, raided by the FBI.Foonet [CITHosting] was home of spammers, packet kiddies, script kiddies, carders, and other illegal activities, as documented in the links below.

    SPEWS's rapsheet on Foonet
    Usenet postings in regards to Foonet
    GBLX yanks Foonet's pipe
    Foonet hosting carders (credit card thieves) and here
    More on foonet's hosting of spammers, and possible traceroute forging
    Foonet's Page
    theWHIR article
  2. Their equipment is being returned right now by SoopahMan · · Score: 3, Informative · on Too slow! FBI Shuts Down Hosting Service

    From their site:

    02/23/2004 CIT re-establishes service.

    We have restored service at Equinix's Chicago Data Centers. ... The FBI has begun retuning equipment to CIT which is being shipped to our new facilities in Chicago. At this time CIT will continue to provide dedicated DDOS Protected web hosting only.

    The rest of the page is chaff about who the company is, and things already quoted here.

    This puts the downtime they experienced at about 2 weeks - which must have been very disruptive to their business, but not in line with most "the FBI is here" horror stories. Though I understand the FBI agents in this case not wanting to be any more disruptive than they have to be, it is incompetent of the FBI as an organization to not have a more unitrusive means of auditing large datahouses unannounced - although the companies they arrive at cannot possibly be prepared, the FBI must anticipate this frequent eventuality.
  3. Interesting by buckeyeguy · · Score: 1 · on Too slow! FBI Shuts Down Hosting Service

    Found nothing about it in the local paper, which is not normally a surprise (the Columbus Dispatch is worthless) but when I went to the company's own website, it says they're NOW located in Chicago. Guess they didn't want somebody rushing into an office park location and saying "ok boys, pack it all up." Or maybe they're tired of marginally-justified court search warrants.

  4. You know... by Niet3sche · · Score: 5, Informative · on Too slow! FBI Shuts Down Hosting Service

    It's not like I agree with this, if indeed things happened as the article state... but a quick google on FooNet (AKA / DBA CIT ) turns up some VERY interesting results.

    I google'd quickly on a hunch, and sure enough I got some rather interesting hits.

    I claim to know nothing about SPEWS and how they go about adding to the blacklists, but they apparently are no stranger to it.

    Furthermore, it seems that this IS NOT the first run-in with the FBI that FooNet/CIT has had: from here, if you scroll down a bit, you'll see the following text: The FBI executed a search warrant issued by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio regarding the IRC network that we host # We regret to inform you that on Saturday February 14, 2004 at approximately 8:35 am EST, FOONET/CIT's data center in Columbus, Ohio temporarily ceased operations. And this was from Feb. 14 ...

    Another incident was reported out here on 07/12/03 (search the page for "foonet") ... seems that 84898 spams swamped a box, and follow-up by FooNet sucked - e.g. they turned a blind eye.

    There are far too many hits to return ... if you're interested in more, you can always head here. For now, I'll close with this: I do not agree with the methods used, if they were as described ... however, FooNet/CIT is no stranger to the FBI, and perhaps this is all rolled in to the Feb. 14th notice ... maybe the FBI actually gave them 10 days to comply... I'd really like to see how this ends.

  5. The FBI is already returning some equipment... by shyster · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Too slow! FBI Shuts Down Hosting Service
    Looks like the seizure occurred on 02/14, and that as of 2/23 some servers have already been shipped back and put back on-line. As of now, their IRC network is still down...though it's unclear whether that's due to an FBI decision, the FBI still having their servers, or a CITHosting decision.

    The only thing I find a bit odd about this whole thing is that it looks like they too the opportunity to relocate their data center to Chicago (it was previously in Cleveland). According to their news,

    The FBI has begun retuning equipment to CIT which is being shipped to our new facilities in Chicago.

    Wouldn't that unnecessarily delay the process of restoring service to their customers? Was the move already planned, or did they suddenly decide that they needed a different data center? Is it possible they're blowing the seize out of proportion in order to cover outages due to their move? Or did the seizure even actually happen?

  6. Re:Wear the yellow star by Alsee · · Score: 2, Informative · on Search and Seizure at the Supreme Court
    clickable link... learn. (It's on my to do list.)

    A simplified example:
    <A href="LINK">TEXT</A>
    TEXT

    A full (working) example:
    Stuff <A href="http://www.cithosting.com/">the link</A> stuff.
    Stuff the link stuff.

    -
  7. Re:Wear the yellow star by CreatureComfort · · Score: 1 · on Search and Seizure at the Supreme Court

    Karma whoring clickable link from someone who at work, and so not busy at all. ;-p

    Click Here