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Wed, 14 May 2008 13:35:57 +0000

[…] Big Blue cat puts me in esteemed Twitter company. Peter Gabriel’s site is still down due to stolen […]

By: Attacks Won’t Always Come From outside - Part 2 « I [heart] Security

Attacks Won’t Always Come From outside - Part 2 « I [heart] Security — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:34:30 +0000

[…] TechCrunch and The Register were both running a story a few days ago about the case of physical server theft from a CarPhone Warehouse owned ISP from their data center on a Sunday evening. […]

By: TPedler

TPedler — Sun, 11 May 2008 11:20:11 +0000

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Heise vs Techchrunch. Bringen Links was? » BloggingTom — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:55:25 +0000

[…] Beitrag “Peter Gabriels Webserver geklaut” am vergangenen Dienstag bei Techcrunch aufgetaucht ist, kamen auch schon die ersten Anfragen via Twitter und in den Kommentaren, was das trafficmässig […]

By: splishsplash

splishsplash — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:26:38 +0000

Anyone ever heard of an incident like this over here in Europe?

By: Ross

Ross — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:16:48 +0000

This has happened to Cihost quite a few times I believe. This actually happens every few months some data center gets robbed.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:14:32 +0000

Did they use a sledgehammer?

(I’ll get my coat.)

By: Alexandar Tzanov

Alexandar Tzanov — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:38:31 +0000

I can say that this is not uncommon. Servers being stolen happens a lot, especially in data centers were employees are not properly compensated by the data center owners.

There are a couple such data centers in the Chicago metropolitan area. And no, one of them is not FDC, at least not to my knowledge or experience.

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:25:21 +0000

Haha! That is quite funny. Though, sad at the same time.

By: grumbs

grumbs — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:16:30 +0000

In 2 of the 3 colocation sites/datacenters containing our servers, I could easily walk out with servers or other equipment not belonging to us. There are multiple reasons for this: the magnetic locks used on many cages have an emergency exit button reachable from the outside with a bent wire; there are no cameras in the “customer spaces”; the guards all know me, or there is an alternate non-guarded exit (e.g. loading docks); I could pack things up in boxes and the outside cameras would not show what I was removing. I worry about our servers every time I’m at one of those 2 sites. The 3rd site has keyed locks on all cages, internal cameras, and a universal sign-in sign-out policy with ID check even if you are a card-carrying fingerprint-scanning regular. I don’t worry so much about that one.

By: micfo.com

micfo.com — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:21:06 +0000

The PeterGabriel.com site is working now, I think he should consider to shift to other reliable host.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:33:24 +0000

Topi hai

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:27:39 +0000

@BloggingTom: Andreas Von Gunten will attend the event and is going to try to find out more about it from Peter Gabriel. So let’s see what happens.

By: BloggingTom

BloggingTom — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:18:03 +0000

@Patrick: I cant believe that. First of all the theft has damaged Opal Telecom’s reputation and second, there is even a trouble ticket existing about that issue.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:17:22 +0000

“lol” you have to admit, that kinda is funny. Would have been a first?

http://www.retailalley.blogspot.com

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:46:22 +0000

Swiss IT Specialist Andreas Von Gunten writes in his blog (http://tinyurl.com/3vscdp) that the whole story could be a marketing activity from salesforce.com. Peter Gabriel will hold a keynote at the Dreamforce Europe event in Paris. (http://tinyurl.com/5prfog)

By: Eric Go

Eric Go — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:21:50 +0000

wah, when I started to host my blog, one of the key questions I asked to myself was whether to opt for local or foreign hosting providers.

now, I know I was right to host my blog locally.

By: Raxit@MyKavita

Raxit@MyKavita — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:51:56 +0000

Interesting, funny and Real !
love techcrunch because of the type of stuff they provide !

Tnx for great advice, definitely not choose this hosting provider

-raxit

By: 9ice

9ice — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:37:10 +0000

Why would someone steal those particular servers that contains Peter Gabriel’s sites and not some other. I smell a rat.

By: Matt Harwood

Matt Harwood — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:55:24 +0000

How to go out of business in one day: The Opal Telecom Story.

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:41:06 +0000

“404 server not found, believed stolen”

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:33:02 +0000

Search Engine Web - no, on the contrary, I’m finding it very easy to judge.

By: SearcH◆ EngineS WEB

SearcH◆ EngineS WEB — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:31:32 +0000

http://searchdatacenter.techta.....25,00.html

There have been a number of cases in the past several years

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2.....om_server/

We have not been in their shoes, so it is not always so easy to judge

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:16:26 +0000

No, I did (10am in London)

By: Eli

Eli — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:14:36 +0000

This happened to a company I used to work for. The servers got stolen as well as the a/c unit.

It was a horrible day to come into work!