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moocow said:
Do they have any idea how much of a fucking pain in the ass it would be to keep a racked server powered on
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I found a product and manual (attached) describing this for anyone else curious (link / archive), covering different cases. It doesn't look too hard these days.

Backfeeding into a shared power strip:
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Using a "boot" plug that slips over the real plug to inject power:
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In both cases, the wall/pdu connection is then quickly unplugged and transferred onto backup power for transport.
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Kokonut Kangs Klan said:
I found a product and manual (attached) describing this for anyone else curious (link / archive), covering different cases. It doesn't look too hard these days.
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Sure ... if you don't mind unplugging every other unaffected and likely not-included-on-the-warrant piece of equipment on that rack's power strip. Hope that cute little gadget doesn't also fry an entire circuit at the data center, too -- they probably won't be too happy either.
 
One thing that kind of pisses me off with Mullvad is the desktop app is actually worse than the mobile version. On PC, the split-tunneling feature isn't automatic, you HAVE to manually select with program you want every single time (mobile app just has an on off switch so it's automatic everytime). But I personally perfer using it over Windscribe mostly because it has Quantum Encryption, multihopping, and its DAITA feature, which Windscribe doesn't have (I think). They have a decoy traffick feature, but it's not as good and matured as Mullvad's DAITA. Windscribe is pretty nice because of its faster speeds (10Gbps servers) compared to Mullvad's speeds and having more features that mullvad doesn't have. I honestly wish Mullvad had GPS spoofing or even a better split-tunneling implementation that Windscribe has, though the app consumes more battery and is less reliable than Mullvad's (it keeps turning off randomly for some reason, mullvad never does this).
 
I switched to Mullvad vpn few months ago and I am pretty happy with it. Windscribe ips were blocked by few sites I visit and Mullvad had only 1 so far.
 
Europe is gonna go into overdrive to ban VPNs and Twitter this year. They need them gone so they can control the narrative and ensure the correct candidate wins the 2027 French election.
 
General Emílio Médici said:
Europe is gonna go into overdrive to ban VPNs and Twitter this year. They need them gone so they can control the narrative and ensure the correct candidate wins the 2027 French election.
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>russia bans VPNs, censors their lower case i internet, and flat out bans sites like xitter, facebook and instagram
omg so bazzed and orthotrad!! bazzed russiya!!!
>yuropoors do the same
HUUURR MUHH FREEZE PEECH!!!!!! LITERALLY 1984!!!!
 
Where did I say Russia doing so was good retard? At least they don't pretend they have free speech or are somehow moral on doing it. And ironically enough Russia has arrest fewer people for internet posts in the last 5 years than the UK has in the last 12 months.
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Tom's Hardware: Dutch authorities allegedly seize VPN server without a warrant
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moocow said:
Sure ... if you don't mind unplugging every other unaffected and likely not-included-on-the-warrant piece of equipment on that rack's power strip. Hope that cute little gadget doesn't also fry an entire circuit at the data center, too -- they probably won't be too happy either.
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Somehow, i doubt they care about what equipment is on the warrant.
 
Kevin Magnus son said:
Somehow, i doubt they care about what equipment is on the warrant.
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I imagine the owners of the impacted equipment do, though. Surely there's some legal recourse to "hey, you fuckheads unplugged my shit without authorization" and "hey, you shitheads let those fuckheads in to unplug my shit without authorization, also without authorization" even in these euro-shitholes?
 
Demonoid often spoke of BREIN trying to seize their servers and failing. One time they destroyed a server that had a demonoid sticker on it, and the guy who owned it was pissed because he actually had nothing to do with demonoid.

And yeah, every time they fucked up they got away with it. They always congratulated themselves as well, as if they were Elliot Ness instead of a bunch of dipshits.
 
moocow said:
I imagine the owners of the impacted equipment do, though. Surely there's some legal recourse to "hey, you fuckheads unplugged my shit without authorization" and "hey, you shitheads let those fuckheads in to unplug my shit without authorization, also without authorization" even in these euro-shitholes?
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And now you can realize why the US is so anal about search warrants, why our laws are set up this way, and why we shot Europoors in the first place and should have let them kill eachother during the wars.

The majority of Europe doesn't have rights, they have privileges that both come from their governments and are self enforced by their governments, meaning that nothing the government does against their own citizens is inherently illegal because their """rights""" are revokable by said government at any time. Consent of the governed in these "liberal democracies" don't actually exist by their both their own legal framework and by their philosophical foundations.
 
moocow said:
if you don't mind unplugging every other unaffected and likely not-included-on-the-warrant piece of equipment on that rack's power strip
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Did you miss the part where they don't have a warrant for the equipment they're seizing in the first place? I really doubt they give a fuck about turning someone else's server off. Plus any competent business will have a fail over and probably not want to earn the ire of the dutch authorities over basically nothing.
 
SCV said:
Did you miss the part where they don't have a warrant for the equipment they're seizing in the first place?
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lol indeed I did. I can't even claim I was drunk at the time. I'm just dumb.

Wish I could say I was surprised though. Europe is just draconian now. "Rights? What are those?"

Ah well. I hope they get a fat lot of nothing when they realize RAM disks get erased on power-off.
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Tom's Hardware: Dutch authorities allegedly seize VPN server without a warrant — company claims that law enforcement will return it after analyzing the device fully (archive)


https://x.com/windscribecom/status/2019529769008685438 (archive) (nitter)
https://x.com/windscribecom/status/2019538939728515381 (archive) (nitter)
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RAM cannot retain data after it loses power, which is why security-conscious companies use it over traditional SSDs and hard drives. But other X users were quick to point out that “it is standard practice to keep a seized server powered on or otherwise technically accessible until investigators can perform a live memory (RAM) capture in a forensic lab.”
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I guess they didn't keep the server powered because the power cord shown in the X photo.
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Huh, I wonder how they would react if they got hit with some BOFH shit. "Don't touch my stuff."
 
King Of Braves said:
Ten bucks says they did nothing to keep the server powered when they seized it.
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To call the dutch, government, and the agencies enforcing their law anything close to "capable or literate with computers" would be a dark joke indeed.
This is not even the UK-tier incompetence where they're only hackers when dealing with people committing the worse crimes the state can imagine (Tax-evasion, not murder or (sexual) assault mind you).

No the Dutch are literally incapable of building and maintaining infrastructure and other civil engineering anymore,
If you're curious, ask your nearest dutchfag why they have no fiber, just those faser-grún pipes sticking out of the pavement, or why they have radio and TV ads telling you that turning on a washing machine between 15.00 and 00.00 is a crime.

Even better, ask them why their national TLD is property of Amazon or why their entire government apparatus is literally too retarded to run a mailserver.

But that doesn't keep them from trying to one-up the UK by vandalising equipment racks without a warrant.
 
I'm looking for a VPN just to torrent shit because I live in a survelliance state and I was wondering why people give Mullvad such high ratings. I know that NordVPN has a sketchy past with their no-logs policy and constant YouTube ads but I was wondering which is better bang-for-buck wise
 
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