Bomb-making tips tied to blog shut-down

The Internet has been abuzz with rumors and conjecture about why blogging Web site Blogetery.com and its reported 70,000 bloggers went dark last week.

Now the answer is out and it seems to be straight out of a movie. And industry analysts say it’s a problem that all hosting companies should be aware of.

Execs at BurstNET, the host for the blog platform Blogetery, released a statement this week to put the rumors to rest.

“On the evening of July 9, 2010, BurstNET received a notice of a critical nature from law enforcement officials, and was asked to provide information regarding ownership of the server hosting Blogetry.com,” the statement says.

“It was revealed that a link to terrorist material, including bomb-making instructions and an al-Qaeda ‘hit list’,” had been posted to the site.

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