Dear Mr Ballmer, this won’t happen at your datacenter because…?

Monday, April 6th, 2009

I’ve commented before about my feelings about the dangers of a headlong rush towards hosted services, especially those that are hosted abroad and thus can fall into the hands of any other country’s law enforcement agencies. Well, just to hammer home the point, take note of this message posted at http://sites.google.com/site/mnsclec/index

Dear Customers,

Today at 6:00am, the FBI conducted an unwarranted early morning raid of our 2323 Bryan Street Datacenters, on the 7th and 24th floors.

I received a phone call at 6:05am from our NOC that the entire network was powered off. I called Capstar Commercial and TELX, our landlord, and was told that the FBI was in the datacenter with a search and seizure warrant. I asked that the agent in charge call me immediately. (more…)