[mika69]

Can somebody explain in more detail - what does this mean for the user? What are pros and cons?

[dangus]

There is no disk in the servers, so there is no chance for user information to persist anywhere.

I also wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a performance benefit, since RAM is far faster than any permanent storage.

The cons are probably just that this is a pretty unusual architecture that they probably had to put some work into setting up and making it reliable.

[Daviey]

It's essentially a PXE-boot diskless environment, what makes you think it is unusual and possibility of being unreliable?

[thathndude]

Technically, researchers have proven that you can shutdown a machine, hit the RAM with a cold spray (like liquid nitrogen) and keep the bits "alive" long enough to dump them for analysis.

But, obviously, that's pretty insane. Agree with everything that this is a big leap in the step of better protection for users.

[densh]

You can still mount a remote networked file system to a dikless node. Lack of disks does not guarantee inability to persist data.

[beckler]

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/1/12/diskless-infrastructur...