OT: Isn't this ridiculous??

[Jack Simth]

All webhosting companies based primarily in the US are very, very eager to please anyone involved in law enforcement deeply enough to mostly write up their own warrent.

Why?

Well, electronic media is subpenable (sp?) documentation. As are the computers it is on. It is perfectly valid, the way things are written up, for a warrent for "all electronic documentation" to get issued. In which case, the police can come in and take every scrap of electronics from the specified location. If you're highly international, such as Google is, then you can prepare for it with multiple redundant backups in different countries. Otherwise, well, your backups are all taken in as possible evidence as well, and you have no access to them until long after the trial is over. Which can take years. Tell me, what happens to a business when all of it's tools, documents, and client records are taken from them for a period of years? Especially when the tools and documents taken included the stuff the customers were paying to keep protected.....