Tuesday, June 21, 2011

F.B.I. Seizes Web Servers, Knocking Sites Offline

F.B.I. Seizes Web Servers, Knocking Sites Offline - NYTimes.com "The F.B.I. seized Web servers in a raid on a data center Tuesday, causing several Web sites... to go offline." This includes Instapaper, Pinboard, Curbed and Eater.

In a note to one of its clients, 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... F.B.I. was interesting only in one of clients and it is absolutely unintelligible, why they took servers of tens of clients. After FBI’s unprofessional ‘work’ we can not restart our own servers, that’s why our website is offline and support doesn’t work. We are still in trying to solve this problem and all our colleagues are at work since 15 hours.”

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