In brief: BRITAIN — Servers abducted by aliens?

Two weeks after the hard drives of two Indymedia servers were seized from the London office of a US-owned web hosting company called Rackspace, British Home Office under-secretary Caroline Flint told parliament that "no UK law enforcement agencies were involved" in the October 8 seizure. The seizure shut down 20 Indymedia sites around the world. While they were returned a week later, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, acting on behalf of Indymedia, has been unable to find out more than that Rackspace handed the servers to a US agency (the court order is sealed). Those to have denied taking the servers include the FBI, the US State Department and the Federal District Court in Texas. "Were our servers abducted by aliens?", an Indymedia volunteer asked on October 17. "Two weeks have passed and we are no step closer to knowing who took our servers, why or even on which continent they were."

From Green Left Weekly, October 27, 2004.

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