Police in Amsterdam seized a server from a data center in the city’s eastern district on Tuesday, following a request from U.S. authorities. The police confirmed the seizure after it was reported by the NRC.
The seized server belongs to Italian internet provider Autistici/Inventati (A/I). Dutch police are creating a digital image of its data to hand over to U.S. authorities, as required under the American request for legal assistance.
Police have not disclosed which specific data will be transferred to U.S. authorities. The server will be returned to the data center once the process is complete.
cool cool cool lesson learnt. don’t set your vpn or host a server in the netherlands
the left needs be thinking meshes and crypto (and seemingly only xmr (?) which is compromisable in very specific circumstances and still can be interchanged otherwise) as necessary evil if money is involved, everything with isbn/swift is compromisable by d-tier suit in amerikkka.
incidentally, in hypothetical internationalist future, having a server with fiber optic out to 100 km remote starlink or whatever europe/china/russia analogue is also an option in the middle of jungle
The CIA is just going to send a guy with scissors and cut your cable.
to where from where? optic cables don’t even need to ring on metal detectors.
Start at the uplink and follow the line.
100 km of a line in the ground? you have a much better opinion about work ethic of agents. leaving aside that global uplink might be moving in radio contact with stationary one. the obvious signature is 1kw of solar panels, but even that can be obfuscated down to satellite resolution. but considering even the first step (fully owned servers) is not implemented that’s whatever theorizing about cyberpunk future tbh.
Send a backhoe operator. They always hit something like this