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Too slow! FBI Shuts Down Hosting Service

Posted by timothy on from the shades-of-steve-jackson dept.

Chope writes "If FBI agents showed up at your data center bearing a warrant, would you be able to provide them prompt access to customer data? BZZZZT! I'm sorry, but you've taken too long to answer. We'll be confiscating all the hardware you use, er, used to use, to run your business. But we'll get it back to you 'real soon now.' Thank you for playing. CarrierHotels.com is carrying the story of a FBI raid on a web hosting company. When the hosting company didn't and/or couldn't provide the information the FBI was looking from its several terabytes of data within "several hours", the FBI decided it was more "efficient" to seize all the web servers and customer data as part of the FBI's investigation of a hacking incident."

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  1. All Your Rights Are Belong To Ashcroft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    someone had to say it..

    1. Re:All Your Rights Are Belong To Ashcroft by LittleBigLui · · Score: 5, Funny
      someone had to say it..
      ... and judging by the finely crafted grammar, bush did. :)
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  2. FBI?? by Ratface · · Score: 4, Funny

    If the FBI shoed up at my door... there would be a hell of an international incident as I live in Sweden (you insensitive clod!)

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  3. What kind of sick joke is this? by elchulopadre · · Score: 5, Funny

    First their webserver farm gets seized by the FBI, then you post their story on /. ??? Give these guys a break!

  4. Re:Over the top anyone? by BigDork1001 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is the US we're talking about. We sue everyone for everything. In fact I just might sue you for implying we wouldn't sue.

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  5. Re:Threat? by Chundra · · Score: 4, Funny

    Abdul, Mohammed, Mustafa Ali, greetings! The goat is roasted. I repeat, the goat is roasted. Run! Run like the great camel to tell Uncle.

  6. Sounds like a good reason to mirror by McFly777 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you are a data center, this sounds like another good reason to have a mirror (RAID 0, or is it RAID 1). That way you can just unplug the mirror drive and give it to the FBI without disturbing the rest of your service.

    Actually this makes the acronym RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Devices) have dual meaning... RAID is what you want when you are raided!

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  7. Re:How about the sustained financial damage? by chrisbtoo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do they close the several-block-radios for ten days?

    Damn, that's a big radio.

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