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[+] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    IANAL but withholding evidence from a court order can hold you in contempt of court. I remember hearing a story of a person who was accused of having CSAM on an encrypted hard drive, and refused to decrypt it, and is in jail until he decrypts it. Just because you're a person doesn't mean you can ignore a warrant.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    information itself is a liability. best to have a policy of 'we keep no IPs in logs, so are happy to hand over whatever'.. dump data the moment you dont require it

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Just store what logs you need on a ram drive. The logs will be gone the instant the server shuts down and there is no way to recover them.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Downsides include : if any intrusion happens on the server, red team just needs to reboot it to wipe evidence.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    If they have the root access typically needed to reboot a server^1^ they could also just wipe the logs without rebooting.

    ^1^: GUIs typically have a way to reboot without such privileges, but those are typically not installed on machines just used as servers.

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