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The authorities apparently got tired of asking and just went in themselves.

Canada-based Windscribe, a VPN provider, just said that one of its European servers has been allegedly seized by Dutch authorities without a warrant. According to the company’s post on X, law enforcement said that they will return it to the service provider after they “fully analyze it.” It’s unclear why law enforcement impounded just a single rack from Windscribe’s cabinet, but the VPN provider said that it only uses RAM disk servers, meaning anyone who would look through the installed SSDs would only find a stock Ubuntu install on it, so the servers shouldn't hold any trackable data.

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To what end? What authority? At this point it could be you or me in a mask with a body cam, for all the credentials authorities are showing these days.

Spoiler: it was a random thief in need of hardware.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

The thief just want to set up their own gaming server; issue is that it's too expensive to purchase, so it's easier to steal it.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 2 points 5 hours ago

Good odds that type of thing is happening more than is being told.

[–] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine all the €€ worth of ram in there at current prices 😅

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Gonna retire to Switzerland when it's sold 🤑

[–] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 3 points 20 hours ago

What’s the point lol? Switzerland is expensive to live. Keep your assets in Switzerland to benefit from Tax haven and retire somewhere where your money goes 5 times as far 😂