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Looks the time has come for a small country to create a data haven like the fictional Sultanate of Kinakuta . I believe that the idea will attract foreign investment quickly.
I have mixed feelings about protonmail. On the one hand, they tend to be on the right side of political / legal issues, and this transparency report is nice: https://protonmail.com/blog/transparency-report/ On the other hand, they recently reduced the level of detail in the transparency report. There is also the fact that they are Swiss, and their privacy laws were severely weakened by a recent referendum. In particu…
What would be a good jurisdiction for them?
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What would be a good jurisdiction for them?
Germany has very strong privacy laws which is one of the reasons Amazon dropped an AWS region there. Customers are paying a premium for the jurisdiction.
OpenVPN and IKE both have terrible track records in terms of implementation security.
I have mixed feelings about protonmail. On the one hand, they tend to be on the right side of political / legal issues, and this transparency report is nice: https://protonmail.com/blog/transparency-report/ On the other hand, they recently reduced the level of detail in the transparency report. There is also the fact that they are Swiss, and their privacy laws were severely weakened by a recent referendum. In particu…
>ProtonMail fought the referendum, but hasn't updated this "Why Switzerland?" page: https://protonmail.com/blog/switzerland/" Agreed, and that referendum was back in September of 2016. That's almost 9 months ago. This seems really disingenuous. And the referendum didn't just eek by but it passed by 65%. So if the Swiss domicile doesn't offer the protections it once did, why would I choose this provider over any of th…
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Germany has very strong privacy laws which is one of the reasons Amazon dropped an AWS region there. Customers are paying a premium for the jurisdiction.
If customers are paying a premium why would Amazon drop the region? Were the privacy laws too complex for them?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Germany has very strong privacy laws which is one of the reasons Amazon dropped an AWS region there. Customers are paying a premium for the jurisdiction.
If customers are paying a premium why would Amazon drop the region? Were the privacy laws too complex for them?
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If customers are paying a premium why would Amazon drop the region? Were the privacy laws too complex for them?
I think he means "dropped" as in "the rapper dropped his mixtape today", not as in "the service provider dropped their service due to lack of profitability".
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>ProtonMail fought the referendum, but hasn't updated this "Why Switzerland?" page: https://protonmail.com/blog/switzerland/" Agreed, and that referendum was back in September of 2016. That's almost 9 months ago. This seems really disingenuous. And the referendum didn't just eek by but it passed by 65%. So if the Swiss domicile doesn't offer the protections it once did, why would I choose this provider over any of th…
Because they still can't read your email, nobody can, even thought it is on their servers and crossing Swiss borders.