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They can go and ask/seize since it's on German territory. Encrypt the shit out of it. My servers are in Amsterdam/Paris.

• yorwba 9y ago
  > Encrypt the shit out of it. My servers are in Amsterdam/Paris. Is this meant to imply that the legal situation is very different in the Netherlands/France, or that you encrypt everything because it's the same as in Germany?
  • r1ch 9y ago
    Regardless of the risk of seizure from law enforcement, I feel you should fully encrypt any remotely hosted servers. There are plenty of examples of datacenter techs being socially engineered to install backdoors, affecting both colo and dedicated. Had it happen to myself with an old server - they called up with some excuse and were able to completely bypass the 2FA in the control panel I thought I was secure with and have the techs disable pubkey authentication and reset the root password.
  • rurban 9y ago
    Yes, the situation is very different. Germany has the strongest privacy laws, Netherlands is practically a police state like the UK, and the French are at war like the US, with special police powers.