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Rackspace, Indymedia, and the FBI

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the egg-on-face dept.

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!"

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  1. Just copy the disks before turning them over by jurt1235 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If they just decided to copy the disks so they would have had limitted downtime. Downtime=How long it takes for dd take to make a bit by bit copy of the drive depends on the size, use multiple machines to do one drive per machine, so it goes as fast as possible.

    That would have made them make the jump of the previous posts and still have limitted impact.

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  2. A good mistake IMHO by Adult+film+producer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Otherwise nobody would have known the FBI was harvesting log files, or am I wrong about that? Hopefully all ISP's when faced with sneaky orders like this will do the same. Regardless, the damage has been done, the FBI has their log files.. it's really too bad about the victims of this witchhunt.

  3. Hanlon's Razor by GozzoMan · · Score: 5, Interesting


    Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

    (From TFA: "A Rackspace employee mistakenly used the word 'hardware' to describe the contents of a federal order,")