There's been quite a bit of unmoderated dissing of the flag admin over his practice of maintaining logs at all, let alone the very short periods of time he does maintain them for purposes of security against malicious hackers.
It turns out that this practice has provided him the only out he could possibly have for keeping the web service viable. If he had had no IP evidence to relinquish to the Feds on demand (according to prescribed procedure), they would likely resort to the remaining option available to them, viz., confiscate the server.
The fact that the people whose IP addresses were turned over to the Feds, brought this grief on the admin through their abuse of the privilege of being hosted on the server, is a very excellent reason for coöperating with the Feds, moreover.
The point is, if he had not been keeping logs at all, he would have been facing the prospect of losing the entire server along with the chaps who were the source of his troubles. If the Feds are after flag and not the troublemakers, their gambit to provoke resistance from the admin as a pretext for seizing the server, failed utterly. Perhaps they were surprised he'd kept logs, as well. Maybe they were hoping he hadn't. Who knows at this point?
We can assume for the moment till the picture changes, that this is all the Feds are interested in as far as flag goes. Surely they must have bigger fish to fry, but maybe not.
I recommend that those who are genuinely interested, read through the entire thread here.
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There's been quite a bit of unmoderated dissing of the flag admin over his practice of maintaining logs at all, let alone the very short periods of time he does maintain them for purposes of security against malicious hackers.
It turns out that this practice has provided him the only out he could possibly have for keeping the web service viable. If he had had no IP evidence to relinquish to the Feds on demand (according to prescribed procedure), they would likely resort to the remaining option available to them, viz., confiscate the server.
The fact that the people whose IP addresses were turned over to the Feds, brought this grief on the admin through their abuse of the privilege of being hosted on the server, is a very excellent reason for coöperating with the Feds, moreover.
The point is, if he had not been keeping logs at all, he would have been facing the prospect of losing the entire server along with the chaps who were the source of his troubles. If the Feds are after flag and not the troublemakers, their gambit to provoke resistance from the admin as a pretext for seizing the server, failed utterly. Perhaps they were surprised he'd kept logs, as well. Maybe they were hoping he hadn't. Who knows at this point?
We can assume for the moment till the picture changes, that this is all the Feds are interested in as far as flag goes. Surely they must have bigger fish to fry, but maybe not.
I recommend that those who are genuinely interested, read through the entire thread here.