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by kcima 5179 days ago
Don't log IPs? End user IP's are mostly dynamic anyway.
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And run the entire server out of memory. 64GB of ram is cheap on servers now; you boot from a write-protected flash drive, and everything is done in memory. If you power the box down, anything stored in ram is lost.
> If you power the box down, anything stored in ram is lost.

That's the theory of ideal RAM, but in practice RAM is not ideally volatile. Cf.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack

I believe that in almost all cases, the LEO tasked with seizing equipment in an operation are going to be ill-equipped to execute this attack. Now, if its the CIA or NSA after you, you have other problems.
SnipURL doesn't seem to make that claim. They even load https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif which has a tracking cookie.