August 5, 2005

So it wasn't their fault

Anti-Patriot Act doomsayers take note: last year's seizure of Indymedia servers was, in fact, a mistake. When the servers were seized, the EFF sued to have the subpoenas by which the FBI acquired the servers unsealed. A few days ago, the documents were made public.

Turns out that the FBI requested copies of a few specific logs. It was Rackspace, Indymedia's IT provider, that decided to give hard drives away. The FBI didn't have time to access the drives before Rackspace found the files in question, forwarded them, requested the drives back, and had them returned.

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Posted by ryan at August 5, 2005 5:52 PM | TrackBack
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I don,t mean to sound, eh sceptical but the FBI returned the Drives with out copying, YEA RIGHT! Maybe they worked out a deal with the tooth fairy.

Posted by: Glen at August 5, 2005 6:34 PM

Rackspace indicated that there was no indication that the drives had been accessed. But even if they had, it's not as if the FBI was getting into things they hadn't been given. If you want to get mad at someone, get mad at Rackspace.

Posted by: ryan at August 5, 2005 10:49 PM
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