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F.B.I. seizes web servers, knocks sites offline
MSNBC ^
| 6/21/2011
| By VERNE G. KOPYTOFF
Posted on 06/22/2011 9:06:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
Instapaper and Curbed Network are among the sites hit, though the cause of the raid is unknown
The F.B.I. seized Web servers in a raid on a data center early Tuesday, causing several Web sites, including those run by the New York publisher Curbed Network, to go offline.
The raid happened at 1:15 a.m. at a hosting facility in Reston, Va., used by DigitalOne, which is based in Switzerland, the company said. The F.B.I. did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the raid.
In an e-mail to one of its clients on Tuesday afternoon, a DigitalOne employee, Sergej Ostroumow, said: This problem is caused by the F.B.I., not our company. In the night F.B.I. has taken 3 enclosures with equipment plugged into them, possibly including your server we can not check it.
Mr. Ostroumow said that the F.B.I. was only interested in one of the companys clients but had taken servers used by tens of clients. He wrote: After F.B.I.s unprofessional work we can not restart our own servers, thats why our website is offline and support doesnt work. The companys staff had been working to solve the problem for the previous 15 hours, he said.
Mr. Ostroumow said in response to e-mailed questions that it was not clear if the issues would be resolved by Wednesday.
It is not clear what the F.B.I. was looking for, or whether the raid was in response to recent attacks by hacker groups on corporate and government sites.
A government official who declined to be named said earlier in the day that the F.B.I. was actively investigating the Lulz Security group and any affiliated hackers. The official said the F.B.I. had teamed up with other agencies in this effort, including the Central Intelligence Agency and cybercrime bureaus in Europe.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Technical
KEYWORDS: communism; computer; fbi; govtabuse; internet; isp; policestate; server; tyranny
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica
When the FBI came there supposedly was nobody at the server location. So they had no idea what their warrant referred to, which was surely less than what they took. They should have taken nothing until they obtained clarification.
To: Red Badger
Better put some ice on that...
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posted on
06/22/2011 10:18:26 AM PDT
by
listenhillary
(Social Justice is the epitome of injustice.)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Im watching them in a chat room right now. Theyve hit the Petrobras site in Brazil. Them who? The FBI or the hackers?.............
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posted on
06/22/2011 10:19:08 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Nothing is a 'right' if someone has to give it to you................)
To: Spktyr
Offshore hosting keeps looking better and better.
This company is in Switzerland but their servers were still in VA.
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posted on
06/22/2011 10:21:45 AM PDT
by
American Dream 246
(Open your eyes. Freedom is not a one day fight. Enemies of Freedom are legion.)
To: American Dream 246
Yes, but I’m talking about hosting on servers that are physically not in North America.
That’s looking better and better, as I said.
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posted on
06/22/2011 10:22:58 AM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Spktyr
Offshore hosting keeps looking better and better.
Russian organized crime, and Chinese spies dont agree. That's is why these bust occur here in the States. At the end of the day, the best place to host your bot command module is in a nice American facility. Power stays on and the bandwidth is plentiful.. there is always a crooked colo center willing to playball.
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posted on
06/22/2011 10:29:06 AM PDT
by
Daus
To: ml/nj
No surprise whatsoever.
Just pointing out the (what-should-be-but-often-isn’t) obvious.
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posted on
06/22/2011 10:33:57 AM PDT
by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
To: Daus
Yes, but if you are hosting something that criticizes the Obama Administration, you might not want the hardware to be anywhere they can easily get a seizure order.
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posted on
06/22/2011 10:36:00 AM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
06/22/2011 10:37:54 AM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Mr. Weiner...Don' t Tweet your meat. It's too late to delete!)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Hard to tell nowadays.........FBI, hackers, terrorists, all seem the same..............
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posted on
06/22/2011 10:41:17 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Nothing is a 'right' if someone has to give it to you................)
To: Zeppo
I thought the FBI can now come on your premises and search your house without a warrant.
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posted on
06/22/2011 10:42:02 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Sarah Palin, the only candidate to be vetted by the NY Times, the Washington Post and NBC.)
To: EQAndyBuzz
Took this thing completely apart, Chief, but could not see any subversive data anyplace inside it.
To: bbernard
Maybe I should not have used the sarcasm tag as most of them are above the law.
I did not want folks to think I thought that way.
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posted on
06/22/2011 10:55:04 AM PDT
by
OldMissileer
(Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
To: Spktyr
Fully agree! I host and resell from The Planet in Texas - imagine if something like that happens there? Wow...millions will be down in a second all over the world. Scary.
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posted on
06/22/2011 10:59:08 AM PDT
by
American Dream 246
(Open your eyes. Freedom is not a one day fight. Enemies of Freedom are legion.)
To: Red Badger
They could have left the servers on-line and examined them in place................They crippled a lot of innocent companies websites for no good reason.............You're giving them the benfit of the doubt. Do you really believe they considered the side effects?
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posted on
06/22/2011 11:09:53 AM PDT
by
Sarajevo
(Avoid arguments with your wife about lifting the toilet seat by simply using the sink.)
To: Sarajevo
I believe they really didn’t give a damn about the consequences to innocent parties. This is the cyber equivalent to “Kill them all, let God sort them out.”.................
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posted on
06/22/2011 11:18:59 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Nothing is a 'right' if someone has to give it to you................)
To: Nightshift; LucyT; BP2; rxsid; null and void; Candor7
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posted on
06/22/2011 12:55:30 PM PDT
by
tutstar
To: Jim Robinson
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posted on
06/22/2011 12:56:19 PM PDT
by
tutstar
To: ShadowAce; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; albertp; Alexander Rubin; Allosaurs_r_us; amchugh; ...
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posted on
06/22/2011 4:15:34 PM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: bamahead
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posted on
06/22/2011 4:23:36 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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