THIS IS NOT A DRILL: The Dutch authorities, without a warrant, just seized one of our VPN servers saying they’ll give it back after they “fully analyze it”.
Windscribe uses RAM disk servers so the only thing the authorities will find is a stock Ubuntu install. The bigger worry is the unredacted Epstein files we had on there…
I’m looking forward for legal proof as it could be just some engagement farming
Where did you see this? Can you also link where you found this?
The link keeps getting previewed into full screen. see https://xcancel.com/windscribecom/status/2019529769008685438
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Thank you
Given the tone of their other marketing materials, and the limited documentation I can find on this incident from secondary sources, I’m inclined to believe this is a meme to promote their RAM-based hardware as a desirable VPN feature
Otherwise, Ive got some questions. Why havent other VPNs like Proton or Mullvad suffered similarly? Is the Netherlands a poor jurisdiction to operate VPNs from? Might the Dutch police seize other assets without a warrant? Is 100% of Windscribe’s customer data 100% anonymous against a nationstate actor who can apparently infiltrate Windscribe on a whim?
It would have been a lot more professional of them to have an official blog post written up than a amber alert type of a post on social media without those questions answered.
A not-totally-unrelated excerpt from a Windscribe blog post arguing against jurisdictional shopping:
…“Five Eyes” countries have a really good relationship with each other and share intelligence among themselves. It also allows them to circumvent their own laws and allow their “friends” to spy on its citizens on their behalf and vise versa. Great — but how does that affect VPN providers based in those countries? Well, it doesn’t
…All of the above mentioned countries have mature legal systems where the government can’t just show up at your office and seize everything based on the will of some “higher up”. There has to be due process, public courts, and the government has to follow the law
… many try to give examples of VPN servers being seized, and no useful logs being extracted from the server. That’s great, but what most people don’t realize is that while setting up a VPN server, you really have to go out of your way to keep logs, and the server itself will have nothing of value on it by default.
