Comments on: Indymedia Disk Seizure

By: Indymedia Parliamentary Question: Richard Allan MP [Sheffield Hallam] « One Eye on the Road

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:43:43 +0000

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By: shayne

shayne — Sat, 16 Oct 2004 07:19:27 +0000

nice to see theres some decent politicians somewhere out there on this big old planet.

Shayne (from australia)

By: mark covell

mark covell — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:35:42 +0000

thankyou mr Hallam for asking the question on indymedia’s behalf. the network is still in some considerable difficulty. although the servers have been returned, they are staying offline until checked out. Gareth Peirce will be approaching the home office sometime tommorrow to start legal action against the home office for the illegal use of an MLAT against a news agency, gross invasion of privacy(this has potential multiple claimants) and illegal use of MLAT against an ISP. can gareth peirce co-ordinate with you, mr hallam?

By: Glyn Wintle

Glyn Wintle — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:16:00 +0000

From slashdot "According to a post on Indymedia Argentina the two Indymedia servers seized earlier by the FBI are in the process of being returned: "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." 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. 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.

By: imcista

imcista — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:33:15 +0000

Thanks for picking up on this one, Richard.

An up-to-date summary of what’s happening may be found here:

http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/AhimsaOverview

By: Lupus

Lupus — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 05:31:32 +0000

Sorry, useless question. – “UK-Based” may be viewed as nonaplying to rackspace/Indymedia case.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 01:40:53 +0000

For some background information see this blog, jebba is the guy who had the contract with Rackspace, also the hard disks have now been returned: http://jebba.blagblagblag.org/

By: Spy Blog

Spy Blog — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:11:01 +0000

Seizure of IndyMedia servers in London compromises the NHTCU Confidentiality Charter
The seizure of server hardware in London belonging to the international IndyMedia network raises some questions not yet covered by the reports in The Register etc. The United Kindom’s National High Tech Crime Unit used to try to work with…

By: poons

poons — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:06:06 +0000

I am glad to see that at least one UK MP has picked up on this.
How long would such a question normally take to receive an answer?