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liquidk ◴[] No.37962482[source]
The provider has access to the host, they can just inspect the job from the outside and you won’t be able to tell
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Jenda_ ◴[] No.37963439[source]
The Hetzner one is a physical server. You would need to stage a "power outage" and backdoor it, which is probably not that easy - e.g. planting a kernel module which survives kernel upgrades and is pretty advanced at hiding itself (the article talks about analyzing raw memory dump).
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1. mhio ◴[] No.37964106[source]
If it was big brother, obtaining a customised EUFI or ilo/drac/ipmi firmware for the hardware doesn't seem like a stretch.