[Boston-editorial] Re: Huge story- anarchist web admin targeted

[Jonathan D. Proulx]

We (and other indymedia sites) do not collect IP information in our
server logs as a matter of policy, so I don't think we need worry
about this request, though we do have a "login" system so that
information may be requested by law enforcement.

I've had some dealings with the FBI's cyber crimes unit in the past
(not as a target :), though I hear they've gotten a bit more hard
assed lately with all the fatherland security crap.

As I see things there are two reasons for Da' Man to come round asking
questions. 

1) They're after someone who posted to the site.  This is easiest for
   us to deal with.  I'd suggest just rolling over as we don't really
   have any indormation, unless they foolishly put alot of real info
   in their profile and posted while logged in.  Best case we pull one
   of the mirrored drives hand it to the cops for forensics and suffer
   no downtime.  Worst case they seize the whole system we're down a
   few hours to a day rebuilding from backup.

2) They're after us. This is not as likely for us as for
   flag.blackened based on content, but who's to say.  This is pretty
   hard to plan for as there's so many possible ways to go, things
   to plant, and people to threaten.

So I'd reccoment only really planning for senario one as senario two
is independent of our actions (presuming evidence is planted, which
I'd expect...)

This all speculative of course, is there a lawyer in the house?

I'm still reading the comments section and following up references, I
have an obvious personal interest in this one :)

-Jon