“THE INFORMATION SOUGHT THROUGH THIS SUBPOENA RELATES TO A FEDERAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION BEING CONDUCTED BY THE FBI,” the subpoena says. “YOUR COMPANY IS REQUIRED TO FURNISH THIS INFORMATION. YOU ARE REQUESTED NOT TO DISCLOSE THE EXISTENCE OF THIS SUBPOENA INDEFINITELY AS ANY SUCH DISCLOSURE COULD INTERFERE WITH AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW.”

American FBI forgets that Canada has not yet been annexed by the United States. They’re not required to do shit, they don’t even go here.

Also why are subpoenas always in all caps? Why are you yelling at me? Learn to write. Most of us are taught how to use upper and lower case letters early in elementary school, this isn’t a sign that needs to be bold, stop being so annoying.

[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I'm familiar with a similar situation where a forum was hosted on a Chinese server that has a bunch of Americans on it talking about a security hole in their company. FBI did a sad attempt at hard man interviews with some of the Americans and got nothing so they sent a subpoena to the webmaster demanding they turn over all logs and the webmaster just replied asking if they bothered to figure out where the server was. I think the FBI are just fundamentally bad it their jobs.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

are they bad or are they gretzkying that people comply even though they don't have to?

[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I guess that's possible, but I think if they're resorting to that it would generally be because they're bad at their jobs. I suspect if they didn't suggest and plan terrorist attacks for their patsies, they'd rarely catch anybody other than the most inept of criminals.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wonder what their plan to proceed is once they've found out that the project is run by the child of some Russian oligarch (just speculating here). Their subpoena isn't even to the same continent as the datacenter.

Freeze their mastercard?

[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

brump we have the best sanctions, jack

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

probably comes down to whether they have a "send subpoena" button

or it could be graft on the part of agents.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sending all caps letters to webmasters probably just works a considerable amount of the times.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 months ago

the FBI are just bad at their jobs

They're gonna make so much kiddie porn and prove. You. Wrong.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

[–] unaware@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

speech-r trump-drenched

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 19 points 5 months ago

American FBI forgets that Canada has not yet been annexed by the United States. They’re not required to do shit, they don’t even go here.

I'm sure they do plenty of business in the US, though, so I don't think the feds would have trouble turning the screws if they needed to. But I'd be happy to be proven wrong!

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

Tucows is a Canadian-American company on the NASDAQ. So this explains why the FBI tried them first before going more international and knocking on OVHs door.

They also seem to have a pretty laissez-faire approach to who they provide services to (all the nazi sites).

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

Also why are subpoenas always in all caps? Why are you yelling at me?

Legal intimidation mostly. It's parlour tricks. Same reason the cops shout.