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FBI Demands Logs From Radical Website

sunbird writes "The details are as yet unclear due to a gag order, but apparently the FBI is once again demanding IP logs from dissident webservers. The sysadmin for flag.blackened.net, best known for hosting infoshop.org and the Anarchist FAQ has responded to an FBI request for server logs. Although he cannot reveal the details of the request due to the gag order, the sysadmin has issued an informal press release discussing his reasons for turning over the information. Slashdot articles on similar topics: (1) (2) (3)"

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  1. And next they'll demand ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdots logs

    for linking to a story about the FBI and Anarchists

  2. Chicken Big or Chkicken Little? by stevens · · Score: 5, Funny

    Either it's the start of the fourth reich, tracking down all the remaining Jedi^Wfreethinkers and killing them, or it's a normal subpoena request for a normal investigation.

    I'll go ask Occam and get back to you.

    1. Re:Chicken Big or Chkicken Little? by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 5, Funny

      Occam's dead. Shaving accident.

      --
      Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
  3. You know... by Alias777 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The best way to make the FBI happy is to slashdot the site. Great job! Now I have time to hide my cyanide in the subway rails!

  4. Radical Websites... by Uptown+Joe · · Score: 5, Funny

    So all those sites dedicated to the mullet rocking, Oakley blade wearing (with the pink arms) lifted Toyota minitruck driving, Coors light drinking Americans from the 80's are in big trouble!

    Rad.
    Totally.

    Dude.

  5. Solution: Go out to the Forest by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 4, Funny

    chop down a tree you've lubricated with liquid waste products while standing next to it, and cut it into short two foot segments (or half-meter for the rest of the world).

    Get a poker, bend it so it spells IP, then start a fire with the sawdust and stick the poker in.

    Heat up the poker till it glows, using tree branches and some short tree segments and scrap. Then brand each tree segment with the symbol IP from the poker. Reheat as needed if the poker cools.

    Deliver tree segments, aka "Logs", that you can truthfully say are "IP Logs", to Secret Service.

    Mission Accomplished! You are now a terrorrorrorrist.

    --
    -- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
    1. Re:Solution: Go out to the Forest by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 2, Funny

      This will not work.

      In order to deliver "IP Logs", you have to demonstrate that YOU PEE LOGS.

      That kind of surgery isn't cheap.

  6. Re:But of course! by DustMagnet · · Score: 2, Funny
    We live in a complete dsytopia these days

    Dyslexic dystopia.

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    'SBEMAIL!' is better than a goat!!
  7. Michael wouldn't bend over backwards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Forwards, certainly. But not backwards...

  8. FBI's newest too against "radical websites" by zerkon · · Score: 3, Funny

    step 1: Post an article on slashdot
    step 2: sit back and watch "radical website" grind to a halt
    step 3: drink coffee and pat yourself on the back

  9. Suspected extremist by Dioscorea · · Score: 2, Funny
    I had a really good response but it was too extreme and since I don't want trouble I'll keep it to myself.

    Please turn over your logs to confirm that you did, in fact, keep it to yourself.

  10. Re:But of course! by GWTPict · · Score: 2, Funny

    Shouldn't that be 21 years after Orwell's prediction?

  11. Thanks, Slashdot! by b00stA · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks to the /. effect the hard drive got burned along with the rest of the hardware.
    No more logs for you :)

    --
    Stop making that big face!
  12. Re:/dev/null by StalinsNotDead · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I hear "fire!", I look around for smoke and flame.

    Funny. When I hear "fire!", I pull the trigger.

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    Thanks to the internet, we can now all die alone together! -SomeWoman
  13. check this game log by BorgCopyeditor · · Score: 2, Funny

    DigiShaman finds a Wand of Vague Allusion.
    DigiShaman successfully casts Boast Spray.
    DigiShaman has gained +3 CReD(ibility).
    BONUS: DigiShaman is officially hardcore!

    --
    Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
  14. What about keeping quiet? by Sean+Clifford · · Score: 3, Funny
    Putting aside the stupidity of keeping logs in the first place if you run a site like that, here's option #3: keeping your mouth shut.

    Why the hell do you want to do a "press release", especially if you think some nut is going to cap you? If you're going to cooperate then why the hell are you going to shout it out to the world?

    Sheesh.

    Ring ring. Ring ring.

    Mafia Buttonman: Hello?
    Rat : Hey. FYI, I'm ratting you guys out to the Feds.
    Mafia Buttonman: Uh-huh. Is that right?
    Rat : Yeah. Just though you guys ought to know. They're meeting me at Denny's in an hour.
    Mafia Buttonman: Oh. Well, okey-dokey. Best of luck with that.
    Rat : Thanks.
    Mafia Buttonman: Oh hey, you forgot your jacket at the thing the other day.
    Rat : Oh yeah, I wondered where that was. Listen, mind if I swing by to pick it up on the way to Denny's?
    Mafia Buttonman: Sure, no problem.
    Rat : See you in a few minutes.

    Click.

    Scene.

  15. Re:The Soviet Union collapsed by Legion303 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "What was that noise? Oh nevermind that, it was just ole Jefferson rolling in his grave."

    Someone needs to hook some magnets up to that guy and create the world's first corpse-powered turbine.