Thursday, June 23, 2011

FBI seizes DigitalOne servers in Virginia raid

--Sergej Ostroumow, Chief executive of DigitalOne, called the agency's work 'unprofessional'. 22 Jun 2011 Agents raided a data center in Virginia early Tuesday and confiscated several web servers. In the wake of the raid several websites remain offline, and people are left ruffled by the FBI’s heavy handedness. According to the New York Times, the raid happened at a data center in Reston, Virginia, which was attached to the Swiss based DigitalOne.
The FBI took three enclosures with equipment plugged into them, taking out the sites of Curbed Network which included blogs on real estate, restaurants and shopping. Instapaper, a service that saves articles, and the bookmarking site Pinboard suffered as well.
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