The FBI stole an Instapaper server in an unrelated raid

Re:The FBI stole an Instapaper server in an unrelated raid by drjoem on Thursday June 23, 2011 @01:55PM (#2688990)

i am wondering why these companies wern't using EC2?

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Re:The FBI stole an Instapaper server in an unrelated raid by seiji on Thursday June 23, 2011 @02:01PM (#2689028)

That brings up an interesting point: can the FBI seize EC2 servers?

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Re:The FBI stole an Instapaper server in an unrelated raid by lwat on Thursday June 23, 2011 @11:03PM (#2690801)

Of course they can. If they get a judge to sign their warrant they can seize anything they please.

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Re:The FBI stole an Instapaper server in an unrelated raid by chow on Thursday June 23, 2011 @07:25PM (#2690340)

EC2 is not always a good substitute for dedicated servers for numerous reasons, I/O performance chief among them.

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