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- Apr 20, 2012, 1:35:45 AM (12 years ago)
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v6 v7 4 4 the FBI seized a server yesterday from one of our cabinets 5 5 a colocation facility. 6 6 7 7 The server is owned by our sister organization, Riseup, and is managed by ECN, 8 8 a progressive provider in Italy. 9 9 10 10 While the seizure of any equipment is pernicious and 11 11 damaging, the pointlessness of this seizure suggests an inclination toward extrajudicial … … 13 13 14 14 The FBI is investigating bomb threats being made to 15 facilities and people at the University of Pittsburgh and appearsto believe that one of15 facilities and people at the University of Pittsburgh. They appear to believe that one of 16 16 the servers used to transmit these threats was an anonymous e-mail server operated 17 17 by ECN. Anonymous remailers have no logs or traces of who used them, so the FBI … … 37 37 would be even more limited. Without anonymous communications, the Internet becomes little more than a 38 38 caricature of its potential as a tool for building a just global society. 39 39 40 40 When authorities forcibly remove a computer from an anonymous communications 41 41 network, they weaken that network and set a precedent for attack on anonymity in general. … … 53 53 to arrive at U. of Pitt after this outrageous seizure. There is no positive outcome to this 54 54 action by the FBI. 55 55 56 56 We will defend our members' privacy and their data. 57 57 We will also aggressively seek the return of the computer the FBI