Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoMullvad Annouce Removal Of All Disk Infrastructure - Now RAM Onlymullvad.netexternal-linkmessage-square126fedilinkarrow-up1907arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1898arrow-down1external-linkMullvad Annouce Removal Of All Disk Infrastructure - Now RAM Onlymullvad.netLeraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square126fedilinkfile-text
Today we announce that we have completely removed all traces of disks being used by our VPN infrastructure!
minus-squaresixCats@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoI’ve never done this, but I believe server network cards can be configured for PXE automatically so Bios -> network card -> PXE over network So the storage is in the bios config, and then I guess the network card has its own kind of bios?
minus-squareCarlos Solís@communities.azkware.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year agoSo there is still one single damning piece of information stored in the servers after all - the IP address to fetch the PXE boot image from. But hey, if Mullvad finds a way to strip even that out of the servers, that’d be great
I’ve never done this, but I believe server network cards can be configured for PXE automatically so
Bios -> network card -> PXE over network
So the storage is in the bios config, and then I guess the network card has its own kind of bios?
So there is still one single damning piece of information stored in the servers after all - the IP address to fetch the PXE boot image from. But hey, if Mullvad finds a way to strip even that out of the servers, that’d be great
Why is it damning?