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No advantage hosting in Iceland. Why not just encrypt all data on the VPS? If the VPS provider was required to provide a copy of the VPS, it would be useless to
by nawtacawp 11y ago
No advantage hosting in Iceland. Why not just encrypt all data on the VPS? If the VPS provider was required to provide a copy of the VPS, it would be useless to requestor.
- tarnacious_ 11y agoEncrypting data on a VPS, for example using LUKS encrypted volumes, does not provide any meaningful security if the host can take a memory dump of the running machine.
- Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd 11y agoAnd just to clarify: taking a memory dump of a virtual machine is trivial. Just click on the 'snapshot' button. On a physical machine, you have to plug in a dumping device into a DMA-capable port, cool down the RAM and move it to another machine as fast as possible, or reset the machine and boot it from another medium (hoping the BIOS didn't override anything useful). In many jurisdictions you also have better protections in regards to required warrants and such for your own hardware.
- nawtacawp 11y agoExcellent point. I highly doubt a VPS provider would volunteer a memory dump of a VM when presented with a search warrant for a copy of the VM. Most providers would likely just copy the VM files and call it a day.