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Once they have everything running in RAM, they can have racks of servers that contain no persistent storage whatsoever, and are therefore subpoena-proof. > On
by oxygen_crisis 3y ago
Once they have everything running in RAM, they can have racks of servers that contain no persistent storage whatsoever, and are therefore subpoena-proof.
> On April 18 [2023] at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant. They intended to seize computers with customer data.
> In line with our policies such customer data did not exist. We argued they had no reason to expect to find what they were looking for and any seizures would therefore be illegal under Swedish law. After demonstrating that this is indeed how our service works and them consulting the prosecutor they left without taking anything and without any customer information.
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/4/20/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-search-warrant-customer-data-not-compromised https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/4/20/mullvad-vpn-was-subjec...
- 8organicbits 3y ago> contain no persistent storage whatsoever, and are therefore subpoena-proof. Nonsense. The linked post shows that they didn't have the sought information. If the information was present in RAM, they'd just read it from RAM.
- itslennysfault 3y agoI assume they only hold what the server is doing in any given moment in ram and it is overwritten as new requests come in. By the time the police showed up with the subpoena the data they wanted was long gone.
- theshrike79 3y agoPlease tell me how you would go about reading something that happened two weeks ago from RAM?