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When you've read Wired's piece "FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers" you may want to check out your hosting service for "bad neighborhoods". In 2009 the feds raided two data centers and seized everything, including co-located servers.
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from Sebastian 520 Days ago #
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Ouch. That's not exactly news, despite today's headline on Slashdot. I didn't check the date, sorry.

Anyway, it's a valuable reminder to carefully select hosting services, and even data centers.

Here's a follow-up from a Slashdot comment, I don't know if co-located servers were returned by the FBI.

Michael Blaine Faulkner, his wife, and others allegedly fled to Mexico shortly after the 2009 raid. A federal grand jury handed down several felony indictments in January, 2010 (or possibly late 2009). Mexican authorities captured Faulkner and his associates in January, 2010, in Cancun where allegedly they were living under assumed names. [FBI press release] They were extradited back to Texas. Faulkner petitioned for release pending trial, but that request was denied in March. The trial date was set for October, 2010, but I've seen no information on any trial yet.


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