Police Reportedly Raid Newsweek's NYC Headquarters, Servers Photographed
Content adapted from this Zerohedge.com article : Source
by Tyler Durden
Over a dozen police showed up this morning at the New York City office headquarters for Newsweek magazine (and its parent IBT Media). As The Outline reports, the reason for the visit was not clear, but one employee said police were taking photos of the company's servers.
The New York Post reports that IBT Media was co-founded by Jonathan Davis and Etienne Uzac, adding that the IRS placed a $1.2 million federal tax lien against Uzac in December 2017. Of course the raid could be due to the uproar that this article caused today...
Um nope. This is why your company was bought for $1.
— Ben Jammin 🇺🇸 (@xBenJamminx) January 18, 2018 In the past, IBT has been linked to a Christian church founded by Korean American evangelist David Jang and Olivet University, a university in California that Jang's followers founded. The office is at 7 Hanover Square in New York's financial district.
Police also visited the office in December, a former employee said. Employees were told that it was because a white substance had been mailed to Executive News Director Ken Li, which they were then told turned out to be a false alarm.
I guess they didnt grease the hands of the right politician.
I dont get this story...what were they looking for? What was the reason?
Or have we gotten to the point where the police dont even bother to try and come up with a reason to make it look legit?
Perhaps the police state advanced that far.
I also didn't get the reason behind this story.
I guess intimidation and showcasing power might be what´s behind it after all. Just like you say maybe they didn´t grease the hands of the right people...
One can´t blame the police though in my opinion as they are in the end as well just taking orders from the top, having to obey to keep their jobs...
@zer0hedge...That's true, generally.
But they didn't follow through with the last two steps.I'm guessing that the pictures taken were the first three steps that you outlined above.
At that point, the servers sufficiently identified will be the subject of a specific warrant.
Unless we're talking about drug trafficking or some type of hacking crime that utilized the server, the police would have no rights to make an investigative seizure.If they are really stupid then they will wipe the server now. Thank you for sharing information with us....
That will be fantastic, wipe everything. Ring-ring - jail time.
I think your guess is quite right bro.
With the Anti-terrorist laws, police can do whatever they want in general. I interested if they will find anything with the pictures taken. How do you take a picture of a server ? Really curious.
Right bro,how did he do that!!
This is generally a good sign to head for the hills.
Luckily no body reads magazines anymore so I think we can ignore this move as being an outdated attempt at suppression.
Good post, and thank for information
Very good. news nyc newsweek police raid post
Thanks for the news @zer0hedge
@ zer0hedge ,Yeah, I fail to see what pictures of the outside (or even the inside!) of a server is gonna tell anyone, aside from the Serial Number(s) and perhaps that Microshaft CAU (certificate of authenticity) sticker. More important, would be a data image of the contents of the hard disk(s). I know, they're trying to track down that missing Awan Congress server.
Hahaha I thought the same! Completely useless pictures....Unless they are on the hunt for stolen servers. LOL
My best guess is that this raid is a threat, rather than an attempt to gather any evidence. Taking photos of cases isn't much use, as the internals of the cases are where the data is, and it's the data that is of merit in a server. That, and the manner in which the data is used.
However, a visit by belligerents with weapons gets your attention, and if Newsweek was considering publishing an article about, say 33k emails that had recently been rediscovered after someone tried to delete them, that just might contain the end of careers, perhaps evidence of hanging offenses, then this might cause them to reconsider.