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Indymedia Servers Given Back

Posted by samzenpus on from the now-play-nice dept.

NW writes "According to a post on Indymedia Argentina the two Indymedia servers seized earlier by the FBI are in the process of being returned: "A Rackspace employee stated, "I was just told that the court order is being complied with and your servers in London will be online at 5pm GMT. I will pass along anymore information that becomes available and that I am allowed to." It has been verified that the returned hard-drives are the originals, but the circumstances of the seizure still remain unclear: who took them, why were they taken, and under which court order? Indymedia is not aware as to whether Rackspace is still under gag order. The hard-drives will be treated as "hacked" (compromised) and as a result there will be delays in restoring the sites that are still down."" Here's our previous coverage on this.

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  1. Hardware too... by SJ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would be treating the entire computer as hacked... not just the hard drive.

    Who knows what kind of traffic / key loggers have been installed.

    (And yes, I realize that a hardware key logger is next to useless on a headless server.)

  2. Info on the Disks by essence · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder what was on the disks. I imagine the FBI could have gotten ip logs, password lists, email lists archives...there's a heap of things that could have been on there that points to names and addresses of people who the state would like to harrass..

    We all know that the current world order is tending towards fascism, this incident is just another step along that path.

  3. This is a pointless post. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And will probabably be modded down... so I dont care...

    But the more I read about stuff like this, the more that I realise that we need to change the way our governments operate. They have TOO much power, and the do things that sould be illegal under the guise of saftey

    I truely think that there needs to be a shift in world power, I think that if given enough room to breathe people would make the right decision, and if we (americans) would quit putting our nose where it doesn't belong, that 9/11 would not have happened.