19 Jul
2010
19 Jul
'10
7:45 p.m.
The single host/box had bomb making info and hit lists. Yeah, I'd shut it down too if it was on my network.
Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474
As would any reasonable operator.
Or maybe it would have been better to not destroy a known source, and work with the FBI to maximize its value.
Cutting it off like that was short-sighted and stupid.
-j
(Fixing the subject line - sorry about that...) It sounds like the letter from the FBI to Burst.net specifically allowed for that possibility. "In the FBI's letter, the agency included a clause that says Web hosts and Internet service providers may voluntarily elect to shut down the sites of customers involved in these kinds of situations." Nathan Eisenberg, Atlas Networks