• bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      IANAL but withholding evidence from a court order can hold you in contempt of court. I remember hearing a story of a person who was accused of having CSAM on an encrypted hard drive, and refused to decrypt it, and is in jail until he decrypts it. Just because you’re a person doesn’t mean you can ignore a warrant.

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        information itself is a liability. best to have a policy of ‘we keep no IPs in logs, so are happy to hand over whatever’… dump data the moment you dont require it

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          yeah, this sounds like a much more sustainable solution. Do it the way signal does it. Collect as little as necessary, and delete it as soon as you dont need it.

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          Just store what logs you need on a ram drive. The logs will be gone the instant the server shuts down and there is no way to recover them.

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            9 months ago

            Downsides include : if any intrusion happens on the server, red team just needs to reboot it to wipe evidence.

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              If they have the root access typically needed to reboot a server1 they could also just wipe the logs without rebooting.

              1: GUIs typically have a way to reboot without such privileges, but those are typically not installed on machines just used as servers.

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        I looked into that guy somewhat recently, he was in jail for something like five years then eventually released. Kind of a sickening situation all around.

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      9 months ago

      With the federation does that also mean that the ip records are replicated? Because that would be a lot of parties that can be threatened, with only one required to give in…