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Police show up and arrest you. Could be with reason, could be by accident. Maybe you did something wrong, maybe you didn’t. They also physically size your serve
by FabCH 7mo ago
Police show up and arrest you. Could be with reason, could be by accident. Maybe you did something wrong, maybe you didn’t. They also physically size your servers, and in doing so they unplug the system.
If you have disk encryption, your data now requires the police to force you to produce a password, which may or may not be within their powers, depending on the jurisdiction.
It’s strictly better to have full disk encryption and remote unlocking than no disk encryption at all, because it prevents such „system was switched off by accident“ attacks.
- gruez 7mo ago>and in doing so they unplug the system. They have kits that allow them to unplug the server from the wall without interrupting power supply, specifically so they don't lose the decryption keys.
- akimbostrawman 7mo agoMore reason to use encrypted memory like with AMD TSME and a deadman switch.
- izacus 7mo agoSure, but in reality I'm more interested in not letting any low paid tech dude in the DC access to my data just because it can pull a drive. Or someone who buys the server from the provider.
- gib444 7mo agoExcept they are more sophisticated than this in the real world. They have kits to clone drives and keep power running without interrupting it
- 47282847 7mo agoIn the real real world, not all police has that or uses it in every raid. We got visited once as a group of people some ten years ago, coordinated to happen at the same time at different locations across multiple states, and at none of the locations they brought any such equipment or expert, even though both the accused crime revolved around computing and warrant specifically was for computer equipment. They asked nicely for passphrases and since we didn’t provide any they got nowhere. They even allowed us to power down some machines for them, haha.