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Peter Gabriel's Web Server Stolen
miller60 writes "Web servers hosting musician Peter Gabriel's web site have gone missing from their data center. "Our servers were stolen from our ISP's data centre on Sunday night — Monday morning," reads a notice at PeterGabriel.com. The incident is the latest in a series of high-profile equipment thefts in the past year, including armed robberies in data centers in Chicago and London. How secure is your data center?"
If at first you don't succeed... buy a gun and go there in person.
Jimmy Page had all his tapes for Outrider stolen, and was forced to rerecord the entire album from scratch. In that case I expect the theft was targeted, while in this case, I imagine it's just guys busting into a data center to steal equipment.
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That is stolen music.
Now you can tell the difference.
Mr. Gabriel was reportedly quite Steamed about the theft.
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Gabriel's servers are hosted by Rednet Ltd, although that appears to be a defunct brand of a UK company called Opal Telecom, which in turn is a wholly owned subsidiary of Carphone Warehouse.
So his hosting company was the side-project of a prepaid cellphone company? He got what he deserved.
I wish I had a penny for every idiot that hosts with Joe and Bob's Basement Hosting Company and then bitches when the power goes out all the time, stuff disappears, etc.
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that is a crap provider.. one thing to learn is that the lower the cost the lower the care that is taken by the hosting facility.
some times you do get just what you pay for..
'...if only "Jumping to a Conclusion" was an event in the Olympics.'
Yeah, if music was set back maybe 4 decades, that'd be pretty cool.
What blows my mind is the article that talks about a group of guys cutting through reinforced walls with a powersaw... what the!? the techs didn't hear an insanely loud noise and think - maybe I should investigate? Then after having realized a bunch of whack jobs are coming in just call the cops and hide someplace? The place has already been robbed 4 times. They can't come up with some better security? geez. You might as well be hosting your stuff at 7-11. At least there you might get a feisty old timer with a shotgun or a bat to fend criminals off.
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.
I really hate to do it, but I'm calling shenanigans. If you seriously have all that, I don't want my hardware there. No amount of your sales people promising my hardware wouldn't be swiss cheese after an incident could convince me otherwise.
Your armed response team is not the police, not even close, so they have to play by a slightly different set of rules. Laws regarding deadly force are pretty much the same (in California) for police and private citizens, but the repercussions are different. Shoot someone and you're a LEO, pat on the back for stopping the bad guy. Shoot someone in self-defense as a private citizen when they had a gun pointed at you, spend the night in jail. Oh, did I mention the whole lawsuit bit? Your fancy "armed response team" has been castrated before it even arrives. None of those people will risk their family's livelihood for their job.
Oh, and any decent thief can be in and out in less than four minutes.
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Yet another case where the legit customers get shafted while the pirates have no problem running the software. I remember playing with Cubase back is college and thinking it wasn't all that hot. If I had my dongle stolen for something like that I would download a crack in a heartbeat and have zero moral problems running it.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
What an amazing back down.