I guess the FBI knows my birthday. Wait, of course they do. Duh. Anyway, they must've been waiting because they wanted to give me a birthday present. Only, it's not the present I really wanted. However, they are finally giving me my hard drives back. I suspect it's just a coincidence that Al received the letter from them the day after my birthday, and even more coincidental that I probably mailed them a letter asking what was up the same day the sent the letter to Al.

For those of you who never heard the story, here's a quick rundown. Christmas Eve 2001 a hacker broke into our Linux server, and acting as a user on our server proceeded to hack into a server at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas. So, some early morning in January the FBI and AFB personnel came and visited the 4 of us (Al, Matt, Chris and Me), search warrant in hand. After interviewing us each individually out in their cars, they decided that we weren't the people they were after and confiscated two of my hard drives which had been in the server. They weren't at the time in use, as after we got back from Christmas break and noticed something was wrong with our server we used that as an excuse to pull them out and rebuild the server with larger hard drives. We were pretty lucky that they only walked off with that, 'cause with the 11 or however many computers we had, and the details of the search warrant they basically could've taken anything with an electronic circuit to it... microwave, etc... Of course, Matt's Snoopy blanket, Chris's Rugrats lunch box, and my KitchenAid mixer we pretty good jokes for the agents who were expecting something a bit different for 4 comp-sci college student's apartment.

I'll be happy to get the drive's back, but I'm not sure what anyone does with a 2 and 4 gig hard drive anymore. After all, we pulled them out of a computer over a year ago because we had larger hard drives just lying around. Anybody with suggestions let me know.