At least in Germany, I would be surprised if the cops could point to the RAM inside a computer. They will not open it before they take it with them.
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trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 11 hours agoThey use forensic tools to clone the RAM before moving it. Probably depends on exploits so whether it will work may depend on your OS, but they have access to the hardware so there are a lot of possibilities.
B0rax@feddit.org 11 hours ago
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Careful. There are levels to it, and from stories that I heard, those levels don’t always communicate with each other. If you get the regular “normal cops”, then no, they won’t know anything more than the average joe about computers.
If get in deep enough shit, you might get a visit from the specialised cops, either the state or federal variety, and those guys know what they are doing.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
That’s definitely the case in the Netherlands. I wouldn’t trust the average cop to find the power button. But that doesn’t mean the specialized teams don’t have some really good ones.
SirHaxalot@nord.pub 11 hours ago
Is this actually practically achievable or mostly theoretical in a lab? Is it confirmed that the cops have actually managed to do this?
hector@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
For password guessing they make clones of the computer so they can make countless instances of it to endlessly guess the password at the speed of dickheads to get around the systems cutting the guesser off after a number of attempts.
Archer@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
You can do this for servers. Desktops would be no problem