Whatever they find is inadmissible, if there truly wasn't a warrant.

What authorities exactly? How did they get their hands on these servers without being let in? Do they have a response to this all being put on twitter? Even the article doesn't mention reaching out to "Dutch authorities" for comment, in a great journalistic failure to clarify anything.

To what end? What authority? At this point it could be you or me in a mask with a body cam, for all the credentials authorities are showing these days.

Spoiler: it was a random thief in need of hardware.

There's that legal jargon that comes to mind, fishing expedition

Too sumarize the article:

US clickbait and ad infested news website directly quotes "trust me bro" Twitter post + describes in 2 sentences what a ramdisk is and does zero real "journalism" like maybe contacting mentioned dutch authorities or Windscribe themselfs.

Once again: Ban Tom's Slopware. Post the original source instead.

RAM disks alone will not be enough; the law enforcement can literally freeze the DRAM for forensics.

Free advertising for Windscribe if their claims are true. Also a lot of people in the thread spreading fud about it without any real evidence. I know because I actually tried to search for it. They are based in Canada and as such part of the Nine Eyes group, but they have a heavy no-logs focus towards privacy. What was seized was one of their Dutch proxies running on ram drives. They could put all the effort they want into preserving power, it doesn't mean much if all they don't have any logs except the vaguest of statistics. It doesn't matter how mature they are if the privacy practices are there.

Got it, do not use IT services in Denmark Netherlands.

Police have UPS-like devices which splice into existing mains cables to keep machines alive on the way into the forensics lab. Presumably it’s standard practice to use those.

Of course, the server could be configured to wipe itself if it loses connectivity for more than a few seconds, or its routing changes. The police would need devices that route Ethernet traffic over 5G, though those would presumably be detectable as bandwidth goes down and latency goes up.

Oh no, without a warrant. How could they. How impolite. No, our security is only intended for jurisdictions with law-abiding police.

Reminder that all we have as a source is the company posting a single tweet, and then immediately used it to advertise how secure they really are.

Afaik, there was a huge cybercrime op in November 2025. Haven't found any alt sources, except the original windscribe post. It could be that this is still an ongoing operation.

There are ways that authorities can confiscate a server without powering it off, so RAMdisk may not be sufficient.

Eventually, we're going to have to make our own countries in order to avoid surveillance.

Wondering had come through much worse than this unscathed, one of my favorite VPNs (that doesn't over-advertise)

Better turn on fire that sever once it came back.

I wouldn’t really trust Ubuntu to not retain confidential information.

They’re not nearly as bad as MS or Mac. But they still collect private data.