Changes between Version 21 and Version 22 of legal


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Jul 5, 2013, 5:50:16 PM (11 years ago)
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    3535 * [http://rt.com/usa/yes-men-bank-people-510/ The Yes Men] released a fake Bank of America web site in April 2012. Although we didn't get any legal notices, we did receive a phone message from the head of security at BOA. It was a very urgent request to speak with us, but when we returned the call he said they didn't need to speak with us after all. Did he realize it was a prank? Google didn't - they promptly listed the fake BOA web site as a phishing site (a phishing site is one that tries to entice you to enter your usesrname and password in a fake site so they can capture them and re-use them on the real site). Of course, it was not a phishing site, but the fact that it was a bank seems to have given Google the green light to omit it from any search results.
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    37  * Also in April 2012, under a [/raw-attachment/wiki/dmca/highwinds_sw.pdf search warrant], [https://mayfirst.org/fbi-attacks-anonymous-speech the FBI seized a Riseup server] in our colocation cabinet. Apparently, an anonymous re-mailer on the server was used to send a bomb threat to a university in Pittsburgh. The seizure happened after we received a subpoena to turn over all data on and about the server. Since the server was administered by Riseup, and they used encrypted disks, we had nothing to turn over. The FBI returned the server a few days later, which we [https://mayfirst.org/fbi-returns-server captured on video].
     37 * Also in April 2012, under a [/raw-attachment/wiki/dmca/highwinds_sw.pdf search warrant], [https://mayfirst.org/fbi-attacks-anonymous-speech the FBI seized a Riseup server] in our colocation cabinet. Apparently, an anonymous re-mailer on the server was used to send a bomb threat to a university in Pittsburgh. The seizure happened after we received a [/raw-attachment/wiki/dmca/fbi.subpoena.pdf subpoena] to turn over all data on and about the server. Since the server was administered by Riseup, and they used encrypted disks, we had nothing to turn over. The FBI returned the server a few days later, which we [https://mayfirst.org/fbi-returns-server captured on video].