Apparently, at least two Dallas data centers have been recently raided by the FBI and *all* equipment seized. Core IP, and the data center hosting UWWWB (that one is totally freaking scary if it's true.) Discussions at webhostingtalk.com and slashdot.org. It's unclear, of course, what's true and what isn't. Lots of rumors that this is about the leaking of the new X-Men movie, but to me that just doesn't add up. If these two raids are for real, and they happened the way these stories state, then something big is going on. I guess we'll see.
The rumors have now morphed into a belief that the raids were about unpaid VOIP provider bills to AT&T. But it must have been more than that (couldn't AT&T have just disconnected the gateways in that case?) In any case, this issue doesn't seem to be cascading, so maybe there's nothing too important here (for people who didn't have their equipment seized.)
Wired has picked it up. A lot more detail, but not much new information. They say it was unpaid VOIP bills to both AT&T and Verizon.
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- jim 4-04-2009 5:03 pm
The rumors have now morphed into a belief that the raids were about unpaid VOIP provider bills to AT&T. But it must have been more than that (couldn't AT&T have just disconnected the gateways in that case?) In any case, this issue doesn't seem to be cascading, so maybe there's nothing too important here (for people who didn't have their equipment seized.)
- jim 4-06-2009 5:55 pm
Wired has picked it up. A lot more detail, but not much new information. They say it was unpaid VOIP bills to both AT&T and Verizon.
- jim 4-08-2009 2:02 am