Tuesday, February 24, 2004

Too slow! FBI Shuts Down Hosting Service

Too slow! FBI Shuts Down Hosting Service
United States
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Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 24, @07:34AM
from the shades-of-steve-jackson dept.
Chope writes "If FBI agents showed up at your data center bearing a warrant, would you be able to provide them prompt access to customer data? BZZZZT! I'm sorry, but you've taken too long to answer. We'll be confiscating all the hardware you use, er, used to use, to run your business. But we'll get it back to you 'real soon now.' Thank you for playing. CarrierHotels.com is carrying the story of a FBI raid on a web hosting company. When the hosting company didn't and/or couldn't provide the information the FBI was looking from its several terabytes of data within "several hours", the FBI decided it was more "efficient" to seize all the web servers and customer data as part of the FBI's investigation of a hacking incident."

 [Slashdot]


11:46:30 AM    

VMware, Microsoft Compete With New Virtual Servers . VMware unveiled a mid-range virtual server that supports not only Windows, but also the Linux and NetWare operating systems. The intro comes less than a week after Microsoft's release of the beta for Virtual Server 2004. [InternetWeek]
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