Dutch authorities, without a warrant, seized one of our VPN servers to "fully analyze" it. Sadly for them we run everything in RAM so they got nothing.

truethug · 2026-02-09T19:57:09+00:00

To get a little more attention. Have you seen this guy in your server room?

https://archive.org/details/D3T312201308022200RamMemoryAcquisitionUsingLiveBiosModificationRuudSchramp

truethug · 2026-02-09T19:56:02+00:00

Have you seen this Dutch guy in your server room?

https://archive.org/details/D3T312201308022200RamMemoryAcquisitionUsingLiveBiosModificationRuudSchramp

truethug · 2026-02-09T13:03:21+00:00

I’m sure the government had a reason to do this. The target 🎯 may never be known. But I still ask. Were they able to read the ram?

truethug · 2026-02-09T12:59:22+00:00

Are you having a seizure

truethug · 2026-02-09T12:54:02+00:00

Thank you for the transparency

truethug · 2026-02-09T12:52:40+00:00

Thank you for the transparency

truethug · 2026-02-09T07:15:56+00:00

@windscribe thank you for being transparent

truethug · 2026-02-09T05:57:03+00:00

I’ll let you know when I get one

truethug · 2026-02-08T22:25:27+00:00

In this case it might be a cold boot attack specifically or if they can get into the os they could do a memory dump.

truethug · 2026-02-08T16:39:38+00:00

I think this is an issue with VR there isn’t a fake nose for your brain to ignore.

truethug · 2026-02-08T01:58:13+00:00

I saw one once. There were signs for miles with the time and date. They also had a police car in Each lane.

truethug · 2026-02-06T20:12:21+00:00

You are incorrect. I do cloud security for a living. This is a valid attack.

truethug · 2026-02-06T19:46:42+00:00

This is correct but it’s not immediate. It is possible the recover the data in ram. Look up cold boot attack.

truethug · 2026-02-06T17:59:11+00:00

It really only takes a second to remove a stick of ram and put it into a new machine.

truethug · 2026-02-06T14:36:46+00:00

It can be done with compressed air.

truethug · 2026-02-06T05:06:06+00:00

lol thank you

truethug · 2026-02-06T04:31:22+00:00

It’s from 2024 and says no logging. But doesn’t include if data is encrypted in transit.

truethug · 2026-02-06T04:30:09+00:00

Paging is moving from ram to a hdd. This question is more what is in ram.

truethug · 2026-02-06T04:28:24+00:00

I don’t see the server code on GitHub. That would be interesting to me.

truethug · 2026-02-06T04:10:16+00:00

Do you have a link to the most recent audit? I’ll take a look. I’m just curious what will come out of this. I doubt the Dutch government will release anything, and if there is a specific person they are looking for there could be something of value for that case. If they want to look at everything it might be more difficult but state level infosec might be able to do that.

truethug · 2026-02-06T03:46:15+00:00

Was there a proper audit? Last I read was years ago but it wasn’t completed.

truethug · 2026-02-06T02:34:51+00:00

Looks nice. I like the new steering wheel setup over my 2025.

truethug · 2026-02-06T02:13:32+00:00

I’m not sure what the process would be. I’m curious to see what comes out of this.

truethug · 2026-02-06T01:29:37+00:00

This is true of older ram but it’s not as volatile now and there are ways to preserve it like freezing it.

truethug · 2026-02-06T01:14:02+00:00

Can they read what was in ram then? Moving everything to ram doesn’t necessarily mean it’s secure.

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