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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