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.
Reminder that all we have as a source is the company posting a single tweet, and then immediately using it to advertise how secure they really are.
There are ways that authorities can confiscate a server without powering it off, so RAMdisk may not be sufficient.
Afaik, there was a huge cybercrime op in November 2025. Haven’t found any alt sources, except the original windscribe post. It could still be that this is an ongoing operation.
Eventually, we’re going to have to make our own countries in order to avoid surveillance.
Better turn on fire that sever once it came back.
Wondering had come through much worse than this unscathed, one of my favorite VPNs (that doesn’t over advertise)
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.
If it truly boots to RAMdisk there’s no reason for it to write ANY data to the drive.
