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Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central Distric... by airhead969 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @07:43AM (#26968248)
Yep. Lavabit. Centralized is never raid/DDoS-proof.

Okay boys, take all these servers because evidence is hiding on them and these lefty pinkos aren't helping us find it. Let's get them back to the lab to find out what that evidence is.

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Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central Distric... by sicco on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @08:54AM (#26968758)
Afaik, Signal uses AWS. Is a raid/confiscation of AWS servers even possible?
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Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central Distric... by heavyset_go on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:50PM (#26972720)
Yes, they're just one court order or subpoena away. With a gag order, you'll never even know it happened.
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Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central Distric... by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @08:57AM (#26968784)
Why raid when they can just ssh in?
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Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central Distric... by Y_Y on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:21PM (#26971128)
It's cheaper.
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Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central Distric... by PeterisP on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:02PM (#26976258)
Of course, Amazon is a US company, so with the proper subpoena from a US court AWS technicians will [have to] deliver images of the virtual servers and/or remove them and/or modify them or whatever else is requested, without the right to inform the customer if the subpoena says so.
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Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central Distric... by dylan604 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @10:33AM (#26969815)
Wouldn't the system see a raid's confiscation of a server as just a down machine and do the normal thing to bring up a new server to handle the load correctly? "Okay boys, now go get that server. Wait, now that one, now that one"
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Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central Distric... by BlueTemplar on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @10:24AM (#26969712)
It's always possible, but the collateral damage might be pretty bad...
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