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by sicco 1881 days ago
Afaik, Signal uses AWS. Is a raid/confiscation of AWS servers even possible?
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Yes, they're just one court order or subpoena away. With a gag order, you'll never even know it happened.
Why raid when they can just ssh in?
It's cheaper.
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.
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"
It's always possible, but the collateral damage might be pretty bad...