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I was told their Apache's error pages leaked "too much information", including the server's IP address. Maybe no breach was needed if this is true.

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I'm not super familiar with this case or the ATT vs weev one, but I thought I read that the prosecution in the weev trial made the argument that accessing information in the open, like that of server logs is hacking? If that precedent was set, wouldn't that have an effect on when a warrant is required or no? Just curious

No. A warrant means you can do extra special stuff, like search someone's house. With a warrant, you can search for whatever you like, however you like.

Told by who?

The FBI Complaint, for one.

  ... I know that, on May 24, 2013, a Silk Road user sent
  him a private message warning him that "some sort of
  external IP address" was "leaking" from the site, and
  listed the IP address of the VPN Server.

The Footnote labeled 4, bottom of page 28.

http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/UlbrichtCriminalCompl...

edit and off-topic rant: I really hate searching government PDFs.

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