[tor-relays] Exit relay seized by police

[Tim Sammut]

Hi Tim, sorry.

On 11/10/2015 12:33 AM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote:
>> On 11/06/2015 08:41 PM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote:
>>>>> The directory authorities are generally more concerned when
>>>>> they *don't* stop it afterwards, and instead keep running it,
>>>>> perhaps with extra logging, packet dumps, and decryption via
>>>>> seized private keys.
>>> 
>>> Is there a reliable way for an operator to detect this?
>
> If the directory authorities have removed the relay from the
> consensus, only they will see its fingerprint in their logs.
> 
> If they haven't, and it's running on the public network, the
> fingerprint will be visible in Globe as a running relay.

I meant is it possible for a relay operator to detect if a snapshot of a
running VM or VPS has been taken? Asked slightly differently, if I have
a relay running as a VPS or VM, can I somehow detect if my provider took
a snapshot of the relay without informing me?

Following from that, are uninterrupted snapshots of running VMs possible
in all hypervisors or should we be using the provider's hypervisor
technology choice to inform how we decide which providers to use?

thanks and hope you are well
tim