FBI Surreptitiously Returns Seized Server

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Remember that server the FBI seized from a hosting company in New York in an effort to uncover the identity of people who were sending bomb threats about the University of Pittsburgh?

Surveillance cameras caught FBI agents returning the hardware, and plugging it in, without telling the owners.

No, the ISP that owns the server is not going to continue using it. And yes, they’re having it examined for spyware the FBI might have installed. MSNBC’s Bob Sullivan has the report.