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Cake day: January 17th, 2022

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  • there is no provider on the planet that can freeze state of RAM in a way that would be useful for this

    You are very mistaken, this is a well-supported feature in most modern virtualization environments.

    Here are XenServer docs for it. And here is VMWare’s “high-frequency” snapshots page.

    Sometimes, law enforcement authorities only need to contact cloud provider A when they have a warrant for (or, perhaps, no warrant but a mere request for) data about some user C who is indirectly using A via some cloud-hosted online service B.

    A(mazon) will dutifully deliver to the authorities snapshots of all of B’s VMs, and then it is up to them if they limit themselves to looking for data about C… while the staff of company B can honestly say they have not received any requests from law enforcement. (sorry my best source on this at the moment is sadly trust me bro; I’ve heard from an AWS employee that the above scenario really actually does happen.)