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!"

Comments

Just copy the disks before turning them over

[jurt1235]

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.

Hanlon's Razor

[GozzoMan]

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,")