The FBI stole an Instapaper server in an unrelated raid
Ouch! As an Instapaper user I am glad that Marco is itemizing all the user data that may now be in the FBI’s hands. Sony, Dropbox, etc. can learn a thing or two from Marco on keeping the customer in the loop.
One of Instapaper’s five leased servers was hosted at DigitalOne, a Swiss hosting company leasing blade servers from a Virginia datacenter. Early Tuesday morning, the FBI raided the datacenter to seize servers used by another DigitalOne customer for fraudulent “scareware” distribution, according…