FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers
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FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers
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Re: FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers
#2That wasn't a defense, it was an acknowledgment of incompetence.
It looks like the FBI is due for a Judge delivered smack down like the SS got for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._Un...
Re: FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers
#3How many companies are reading this and wondering if their next datacenter project should involve servers located outside US jurisdiction?
Re: FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers
#4shouldn't the people enforcing the rules, actually know what the hell they are doing? Is a bare minimum level of competency too much to ask?
Re: FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers
#5How many companies are reading this and wondering if their next datacenter project should involve servers located outside US jurisdiction?
Do you seriously think that other countries have more respect for rule of law or knowledge of data centers than the FBI? It's not that I have any respect for the FBI when it comes to how they have handled this or other investigations but I have a hard time believing that this couldn't easily happen in any other country you might choose to house your servers in.
What this case tells me if I'm running a business or in charge of the operations group is to make the case for investing in a good disaster recovery strategy. Basically, this is the equivalent of your data center catching on fire, blowing up, falling into a sinkhole, etc.
You should always budget for and have plans to be able to be back up and running with 24 hours if your business depends on what's in the co-location facility. If you're big enough then probably already have multiple sites and can sustain the hit from one going down or being removed anyways.
Re: FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers
#6How many companies are reading this and wondering if their next datacenter project should involve servers located outside US jurisdiction?
Don't be so sure that will help: http://cryptome.org/fbi-imc/fbi-imc-doc.htm
Re: FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers
#7That wasn't a defense, it was an acknowledgment of incompetence. It looks like the FBI is due for a Judge delivered smack down like the SS got for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._Un...
Seems like there's a new branch of law or law enforcement that needs to be developed. People who have some expertise in IT need to advise law enforcement about raids like this.
Re: FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers
#8How many companies are reading this and wondering if their next datacenter project should involve servers located outside US jurisdiction?
You need location redundancy anyway. Fires, floods, earthquakes, etc. A few years ago burglars broke in and took all my machines. So there are many reasons to have an off-site separate-provider backup of everything.
Re: FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers
#9So by this logic, they could raid Amazon's datacenters and seize everything because a few people were using EC2 to send spam?
Re: FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers
#10How many companies are reading this and wondering if their next datacenter project should involve servers located outside US jurisdiction?
You need location redundancy anyway. Fires, floods, earthquakes, etc. A few years ago burglars broke in and took all my machines. So there are many reasons to have an off-site separate-provider backup of everything.
Well that's just great. I'll have to add incompetent law-enforcement to the BCP/DRP list of stuff you have to take into account along with network outages, terrorism, fire, flood and all the rest.