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.