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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. fuck a bunch of FBI by bangular · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, that's bullshit. I know people who run small isps and hosting environments, and if they suffered anything like that, the cost of downtime would probably put their business in serious trouble. Oh, and who do the customers complain to? Not the FBI, that's for sure! Unless someone's life was in danger, there's no need to hurt someone's business like that. Yeah, fuck a bunch of FBI. Let's just hope someone pees in their coffee.

  2. Re:All Your Rights Are Belong To Asscroft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I beleive you misspelled that... I think it' suposed to be 'Asscroft'.

  3. Re:How about the sustained financial damage? by Endive4Ever · · Score: 1, Troll

    Any bucktoothed nerd bearing a copy of 'Illuminati' is harmless. S/he has been neutralized and lives in a fantasy world. The goverment likes people like that, they're so easily managed and predictable.

    Yes, the conspiracy is far deeper than you thought. Or not.

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