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Rackspace, Indymedia, and the FBI
chill writes "Remember when Indymedia hard drives were seized as part of an international 'criminal terrorism investigation'? Rackspace pulled the whole hard drive and shut down a dozen websites, and the Slashdot community cried 'Say it ain't so!'
It ain't so.
The documents have been unsealed and CNet is reporting that Rackspace made a mistake. The government wanted only copies of logs, not entire hard drives. It seems the week of downtime wasn't really necessary. Oops!"
that's fanatical support alright!
for a police state!
I wonder how believers of that tired incorrect cliché will tie that in with this.
Surely the FBI were liberating imprisoned information from it's overbearing masters?
Don't you send your posts from an anonymizing location via someone else's rootkitted system?
Absolutely. Nice box you have too :-)
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
No one ex[ects the Spanish Inquisition. Our main weapoms are are surprise, fear and almost fanatical devotion to support.
Faith: n. -- That human impulse that drives them to steal appliances when the power goes out
"Rackspace, Indymedia, and the FBI" kind of sounds like a hip-hop group. I can't wait for their next album.
You can be a customer of Rackspace for 2 years, miss the cancel deadline by less than 24 hours and they will tell you it's impossible to stop a credit card card charge 8 days later.
This is a funny twist, when I had a hard drive fail over there about 8 months ago, it took over 6 hours to get a new one swapped in.
They do give fanatical support to police though, and fanatical billing to customers.
I doubt that anyone at rackspace had the authority to approve a free service use. When I was down for over 5 hours, they made me copy their drive back to a new one after it failed. They made -NO- attempt to do it for me, and this was after 320 days of uptime on that bsd box. I went down, they waited for 5 hours to get a new box with another hard drive, and make me copy it over, errors and all. They obviously didn't have the ability to do in my case, or just didn't. I'll ask again, why does FBI get fanatical support, I get fanatical billing, and indymedia get fanatical judgement calls?