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U.S. FBI Seizes Hosting Company Servers

         

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5:55 pm on Jun 22, 2011 (gmt 0)

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U.S. FBI Seizes Hosting Company Servers [news.cnet.com]

The FBI seized Web-hosting servers from a data facility today, causing a number of sites to go down or transfer operations to other facilities.

"FBI was interesting only in one of clients and it is absolutely unintelligible, why they took servers of tens of clients," Ostroumow said. "After FBI's unprofessional 'work' we can not restart our own servers, that's why our website is offline and support doesn't work."

It's unknown what agents were looking for, and the FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

StoutFiles

6:13 pm on Jun 22, 2011 (gmt 0)

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FBI was likely just being careful and took the whole rack. Sucks for the other websites though.

22april1940

8:29 am on Jun 29, 2011 (gmt 0)



Any feedback of what they were looking for?

lucy24

8:15 pm on Jun 29, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Remember, this is the entity whose ordinary agents didn't have personal computers until about ten years ago. So how were they to know that their actions were equivalent to blasting an entire neighborhood in order to take down one house?

Oh. Wait a minute. This is the US. Didn't someone once...?