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Originally posted by: Lucky
Rotten dot com was never contacted by the FBI. You would think that a serious investigation would involve that..
well according to the wired article they wouldnt have had reason to contact rotten-it was being hosted on an MIT server at the time.
FBI agents in the Boston field office have launched an investigation into the site. They also have served MIT with a grand jury subpoena asking for "any and all subscriber information" about the site, which was initially hosted in a campus dormitory but has since moved to a commercial provider.
MIT said in a letter to bonsaikitten.com's pseudonymous webmaster, a graduate student using the alias Dr. Michael Wong Chang, that it will wait until Sunday to turn over records that would identify him by name.
Rotten dot com took over hosting the site in late 2000/early 2001, so any FBI investigation took place prior to that. If anything had come of that, Rotten wouldn't have the site now.
