On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 04:40:11PM -0800, SiNA Rabbani wrote: > The law enforcement needs a warrant to enter your home. So yep, at least > you'll know about it. > > I wonder if getting a warrant to pull a server from co-lo takes the same > amount of effort and paperwork as getting a warrant to enter someone's home? Well, there is an advantage to co-lo in that if they raid your home they'll probably seize anything more technologically sophisticated than an abacus, whereas with the co-lo you'll just lose that server, at least in that raid. On the other hand, yeah, I don't know if there's a difference in terms of the amount of effort for them to get at it. You could also make it more of a hassle for them to follow up by putting it in a colo in a different country than your residence. What one *really* wants is a way to get colo anonymously and then harden the server against snooping in case they do seize it, but that seems fairly tricky to arrange since there's both the payment and the need to physically deliver the server as potential identity leaks. I think with colo it would be reasonably possible to be assured of knowing about it if it's tampered with, though. You could design something with a tamper-evident case so you'd know if it were opened or removed from the rack, you could ssh into it from your home machine and have a high-resolution probe of whether it's running or not, and so on. If you're particularly paranoid and up for a little hardware design, put an audio recorder or other suitable monitoring device on a PCIe card with a battery or supercap to charge up from the bus and then keep it running while the machine is shut down. -- Andrea Shepard <andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> PGP fingerprint: 3611 95A4 0740 ED1B 7EA5 DF7E 4191 13D9 D0CF BDA5
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