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For what? If the warrant is valid, I don’t see how anyone affected by the raid has a case. If the police serve a warrant on the house next door to you, and yo
by sethg 15y ago
For what?
If the warrant is valid, I don’t see how anyone affected by the raid has a case. If the police serve a warrant on the house next door to you, and your street gets blocked off while they go over the building with a fine-toothed comb and carry off evidence, it will be damn inconvenient for you, but I don’t know of any law preventing them from doing it.
- kingkilr 15y agoYes, but if in searching my neighbor's property they were poking in my living room that would be an illegal search of my property. I'm not sure which metaphor is stronger, but it's certainly not a clear case either wya.
- sethg 15y agoIf the warrant includes your living room (because the police have probable cause to believe that there is physical evidence in your living room that would link your neighbor to the crime), then they can search your living room. In the case of a shared server, I don’t see how you can do a good forensic search of the affected server without having the physical box in your possession.
- glenngillen 15y agoBut they took an entire rack enclosure (i.e., multiple servers) not just server in question.
- CWuestefeld 15y agoIf the system in question has RAID disks, it should be sufficient to grab one drive (depending on the RAID configuration) from the array. The FBI could take that home and examine it, while everything actually running on the server remains uninterrupted. One wonders whether their actual goal is not to gather evidence, but to actually interrupt the service.
- pbz 15y agoThis is more like they have a warrant for one house so they seize the entire street or neighborhood simply because they can't make the distinction on the field between one and the other. In doing so they're causing harm to businesses, only because they happened to be in the same area code as some alleged criminal. They're not just intruding and looking around, they shut down the business, for days if not weeks.
- MichaelApproved 15y agoIt's more like a large mall and they shut down access to an entire wing of a large mall while they search through to find what they're looking for. Oh yeah, and they're searching through your store as they make their way to the location on the warrant.