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[ NNSquad ] Report: FBI takes down more innocent sites during "server raid" (Here We Go Again)
Report: FBI takes down more innocent sites during "server raid" (Here We Go Again)
http://j.mp/krjjVk (This message on Google Buzz)
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http://j.mp/iClKDf ("New York Times" Article)
""Mr. Ostroumow said that the F.B.I. was only interested in one of the
company's 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, that's why our website is offline and support doesn't
work." The company's staff had been working to solve the problem for
the previous 15 hours, he said."
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One day some crucial site is going to be accidentally pulled down this
way by ICE/FBI actions like this. Keep in mind, this is very much
like arresting everybody in an apartment building because there
were supposedly illicit activities in one apartment. And that's without
even considering the international jurisdictional implications.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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