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Canada-based Windscribe, a VPN provider, just said that one of its European servers has been allegedly seized by Dutch authorities without a warrant.

According to the company’s post on X, law enforcement said that they will return it to the service provider after they “fully analyze it.”

It’s unclear why law enforcement impounded just a single rack from Windscribe’s cabinet, but the VPN provider said that it only uses RAM disk servers, meaning anyone who would look through the installed SSDs would only find a stock Ubuntu install on it, so the servers shouldn't hold any trackable data.

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[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 46 minutes ago)

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.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 49 minutes ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 1 points 20 minutes ago

If it truly boots to RAMdisk there’s no reason for it to write ANY data to the drive.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 hour ago

Better turn on fire that sever once it came back.

[–] Chaotic_Altruist@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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