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It's also possible to seize equipment without powering it down: They literally cut out the outlet the servers are connected to, switching them to their own portable power supply before severing the connection to the wall. Kinda crazy, but they cut right into the wall and attach stuff to power it.
Is it possible or just theoretically possible? It doesn't seem much of an attack vector?
I also guess it's more from law enforcement siezing equipment too?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack
If whoever wants that data has the resources, it’s possible. Likely it would be a coordinated state agency takedown, where the data center operator assists, and a huge squad de-racks and dumps whole servers into vats of liquid nitrogen.
More likely is they try to get access to the systems while running via the CPU’s backdoor management subsystem