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FBI Seizes UK Indymedia Servers

Posted on Friday, October 08 at 15:06 by sthompson
Press Release
7 October 2004
FBI Seizes IMC Servers in the UK

US authorities issued a federal order to Rackspace's office in the US ordering them to provide Indymedia's hardware located in London to the requesting agency. Rackspace is one of Indymedia's web hosting providers with offices in the US and London. Rackspace complied, without first notifying Indymedia, and turned over Indymedia's server in the UK. This affects some 20+ Indymedia sites worldwide.

Since the subpoena was issued to Rackspace and not to Indymedia, the reasons for this action are still unknown to Indymedia. Talking to Indymedia volunteers, Rackspace stated that "they cannot provide Indymedia with any information regarding the order." ISPs have received gag orders in similar situations which prevent them from updating the concerned parties on what is happening.

It is unclear to Indymedia how and why a server that is outside the US jurisdiction can be seized by US authorities.

At the same time a second server was taken down at Rackspace which provided streaming radio to several radio stations, BLAG (linux distro), and a handful of miscellanous things.

The last few months have seen numerous attacks on independent media by the US Federal Government. In August the Secret Service used a subpoena in an attempt to disrupt the NYC IMC before the RNC by trying to get IP logs from an ISP in the US and the Netherlands. Last month the FCC shut down community radio stations around the US. Two weeks ago the FBI requested that Indymedia takes down a post on the Nantes IMC that had a photo of some undercover Swiss police and IMC volunteers in Seattle were visited by the FBI on the same issue. On the other hand, Indymedia and other independent media organisations were successfull with their victories for example against Diebold and the Patroit Act. Today however, the US authorities shut down IMCs around the world.

The list of affected local media collectives includes Ambazonia, Uruguay, Andorra, Poland, Western Massachusetts, Nice, Nantes, Lilles, Marseille (all France), Euskal Herria (Basque Country), Liege, East and West Vlaanderen, Antwerpen (all Belgium), Belgrade, Portugal, Prague, Galiza, Italy, Brazil, UK, part of the Germany site, and the global Indymedia Radio site.

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  1. by avatar Dr Caleb
    Fri Oct 08, 2004 11:22 pm
    You forgot the Slashdot link: :-)

    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/07/204217



    ---
    "If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill

  2. by Anonymous
    Sat Oct 09, 2004 1:29 am
    Vancouver indymedia just went offline but it has nothing to do with the FBI.

    Roy

  3. by Anonymous
    Sat Oct 09, 2004 2:53 am
    Does anyone have any idea how the FBI could act externally like this? Apart
    from the fact that it would be illegal for the CIA to seize someone else's
    material (not that illegality stops them, particularly), but the FBI??

    I'm now going to write my MP as well as the party leader I voted for, and to
    Dubya. The last is pointless, but I'd like to hear about this in the House.

    Tim.

  4. by Anonymous
    Sat Oct 09, 2004 5:21 am
    Tim, the elites and their dogs (CIA,FBI) and their masters, the big media organizations like THOMPSON CANWEST CBC Reuters AP etc, are trying to shut down the most visible alternative, independant media organizations, simply because they are losing $millions. Lies and disinformation have worked so well in the past, but now..... The new paradigm does not include (need) old media, and it's driving them crazy

  5. by avatar Jesse
    Sat Oct 09, 2004 3:51 pm
    I doubt that vive is big enough for the FBI to worry about yet. Regardless, I'm looking into ways to ensure such things never happen to vive's servers.

    ---
    Jesse

  6. by Anonymous
    Sun Oct 10, 2004 11:13 pm
    Some new information: Italian government may be behind shutdown of IMC Italy.<p> Article in French:<br> http://www.silicon.fr/click.asp?id=6793<p> Translation of above article:<br> http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/299486.shtml

  7. by avatar Action-Jackson
    Wed Oct 13, 2004 1:25 am
    In an important development the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has taken on the case and is going to negotiate/fight with the FBI. You may recognize EFF as the very strong and broadly supported organization that is fighting the RIAA suing of file-sharers and the problems with E-Voting in the States. <p> EFF verifies the FBI seized 2 IMC servers, even though those 2 servers were in another country--the UK (which has frightening implications for the Census). The company who owned the servers turned them over, and because of the PATRIOT ACT's gag law, can't say anything publically about what happened. <p> <a href="http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2004_10.php#001992">EFF Press Release</a> </p><p>---<br>If you don't like these ideas, I've got others. --Marshall McLuhan

  8. by avatar Action-Jackson
    Wed Oct 13, 2004 11:44 pm
    <p> <a href="http://p2pnet.net/story/2713">Latest Update</a> </p><p>---<br>If you don't like these ideas, I've got others. --Marshall McLuhan

  9. by avatar Action-Jackson
    Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:02 am
    <p> The latest, from IMC Argentina: <p> A Rackspace employee stated, "I was just told that the court order is being complied with and your servers in London will be online at 5pm GMT. I will pass along anymore information that becomes available and that I am allowed to." <p> It has been verified that the returned hard-drives are the originals, but the circumstances of the seizure still remain unclear: who took them, why were they taken, and under which court order? Indymedia is not aware as to whether Rackspace is still under gag order. <p> The hard-drives will be treated as "hacked" (compromised) and as a result there will be delays in restoring the sites that are still down. <p> <a href="http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2004/10/228938.php">IMC Argentina</a> </p><p>---<br>If you don't like these ideas, I've got others. --Marshall McLuhan

  10. by GSOSBEE
    Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:42 pm
    See the following two reports on fbi/cia corruption and criminal activities globally.
    QUESTIONS! geral sosbee (956)371-5210


    PART ONE
    *Sources of fbi/cia Financing For Global Criminal Intel Operations


    The fbi/cia thugs, kidnappers, torturers, assassins, burglars, etc., obtain all the money they need for their criminal operations from multiple sources: Congress, Illegal drug operations and money laundering schemes, theft and seizure of Targets' assets, blackmail, theft (including burglary & robbery) and the stock markets around the globe. The two corrupt groups regularly tap into the equities,commodities and futures markets for guaranteed huge profits. the SEC and other federal agencies ignore these criminal market manipulations because the fbi/cia are "securing the USA from terrorist attacks and are at the same defending freedom."
    Furthermore, the corrupt congress of the USA is aware of and allows market manipulations under the authority of its various intel, budgetary and oversight committees; also the intel courts have inside scoop regarding fbi/cia fraud in the money markets as a result of the secret courts' reviews of the global criminal activities of the fbi/cia assassins and torturers.
    *See:
    http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/part4-worldinabo.html
    __________________________________________________________________
    SEE:
    http://rochester.indymedia.org/newswire ... /index.php
    http://cleveland.indymedia.org/news/2009/03/35293.php
    and:
    An Investigation into the CIA?s 'Black Budget'
    http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0401/S00151.htm
    ___________________________________________
    PART TWO

    See the evidence of fbi/cia efforts to dominate the world through inhumane & murderous methods;accept the cia/fbi as overlords, or STOP THEM; Do nothing and accept responsibility for their crimes against Humanity.



    The tactics employed globally by the fbi/*cia reflect the homicidal profile of the enforcers and perpetrators of the new, stagnant and completely controlled world. These tactics include, but are not limited to the following :



    Mass murder (sometimes one at a time)

    Torture (physical and psychological)

    http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/affidavit2007.html

    Terrorism

    Blackmail (of a mortifying type)

    Stalking and kidnapping and fraudulent stings by law enforcement

    Burglary, robbery, theft, fraud, extortion

    http://www.constitution.org/col/mwswear.htm


    Abuse of civil process and disabling calumny
    Financial isolation and ruination
    Human experimentation (of a monstrous type)
    Programming for suicide (inter alia) of the targeted individuals

    http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/statement.html


    Psychological operations and mind control
    Psychoelectronic bombardment

    Sosbee is an active victim/target of fbi/cia high tech assaults.
    See links
    http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/non-consensual.html


    http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/hightechassau.html


    http://londonontario.indymedia.org/?q=node/673


    http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/part5-updatefor2.html


    http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/part11-updatefor.html


    C h e m i c a l , Viral & Biological Assaults:

    http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/part16-updatefor.html

    http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/tooth14.html

    http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/letterformthemed.html

    Psychoelectronic Assaults:
    http://sosbeevfbi.ning.com/forum/topics ... nic-weapon

    Nukings:
    (Warning: graphic material, adult viewing only) To see what really can happen go to:
    http://titan.iwu.edu/%7Erwilson/Peace.pdf

    Intrusive, continuous and disturbing surveillance (physical and electronic) twenty four hours a day, seven days a week
    -aided by tracking devices implanted in the person and properties of the Target
    http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/tracking.html


    http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/brainscanofsosbe.html

    -with invasions into home, office and car; and with strategic tamperings therein designed to drive the Target insane

    The fbi/cia agents, operatives, thugs, assigns, handlers and supporters are your neighbors, friends, relatives, spouses, representatives, doctors, etc.

    Click here for "The Law Of The United States And All The Globe Under The New World Order"
    http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/thelawoftheunite.html


    Click here To See Evidence Of Corruption In The United States Embassies Worldwide
    http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/psychotronicscon.html#dec 24 2005

    USA Admission to Use of Neuronal Entrainment, Etc.:
    See the following admission by USA, showing that my reports of high tech assaults on my person are legitimate.
    The data shown in the Neuron Entrainment link below confirms that indeed the fbi/cia/marines, etc. have (and use) the high tech weaponry against human beings, and more particularly against this veteran:
    Note that under the psychoelectronic bombardment, chemical and stalking sections (at ?world in a box?), there are several links; here are five more very important links to add to the list:
    add to the list:
    1)
    C h e m i c a l, biological, and viral assaults on human beings
    http://www.governmentattic.org/docs/FBI ... eapons.pdf
    2)
    FBI efforts to hide identities of its thugs, thieves, assassins, dirty cops and self serving corrupt bureaucrats
    http://www.governmentattic.org/docs/FBI ... t_2004.pdf
    3)
    Psychoelectronic bombardment http://www.governmentattic.org/docs/USM ... s_1998.pdf
    4)
    United States Army Civilian Inmate Labor program
    http://www.apfn.org/pdf/prison_camps.pdf
    5)
    See Germs & Viruses 'Made In The USA'
    http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2007_hr/germs.pdf



    See the following links for more on fbi thuggery & homicidal mindset:
    http://laura-knight-jadczyk.blogspot.co ... gents.html
    and:
    http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/FBI/V ... r_BDF.html
    and:
    http://justicedenied.org/issue/issue_27 ... llion.html
    and:
    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/fedagenc ... _4-16.html
    and:
    http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/art ... 3028.shtml


    *
    http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?doc ... 2271&hl=en



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