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Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera

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Post by lazyjones »

majelix wrote: post #89
frenger wrote: post #38

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Sick of this nihilist attitude. > the USA just did a bad job hiding the fact that you had none. Er, no - the USA are the main ones wholesale intercepting everyone's shit - I'm not a US citizen and I don't like it in principle. I did have a pretty good expectation of privacy until they started doing that, because no-one else has the resources to do a similar whole-take surveillance effort. Anyway, I signed up for Fast…

> Er, no - the USA are the main ones wholesale intercepting everyone's shit Why do you think this is? Do you really believe these efforts are not being taken by every major world covert agency?

> * Do you really believe these efforts are not being taken by every major world covert agency?*

No. Targeted surveillance is the job of every major world covert agency. Mass-surveillance of one's own population is an ambition of totalitarian societies and governments only. It's not necessary for secret services of the world to do their job or to do it well.

Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera

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Post by vijucat »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #112
iSnow wrote: post #69

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>There is honestly an element of fear when you use Firefox for the same thing I don't know what you mean. No Android browser matches mobile Safari for the slickness of zooming into pages, but FF mobile just works fine.

Does your mobile firefox give different sizes to every comment on HN because it thinks longer sentences need bigger fonts? Mine does.

Yes, this is just one example. To OP, if he has bothered to check this deep into replies, does Safari do text reflow upon zooming in? Should I attach screenshots to explain?

Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera

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Post by [deleted] »

tripzilch wrote: post #92
majelix wrote: post #89

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> Er, no - the USA are the main ones wholesale intercepting everyone's shit Why do you think this is? Do you really believe these efforts are not being taken by every major world covert agency?

At the scale the US is doing it? Absolutely. Tell me what "other major world covert agency" has these: - Gigantic data centres like the one in Utah - Practically all Internet data flowing through their territories - The large majority of all cloud storage user's data, and largest social network, in the world , with the added unchecked ability for this major covert agency to request query all this data - Strong influe…

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Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera

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Post by frenger »

tripzilch wrote: post #92
majelix wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Er, no - the USA are the main ones wholesale intercepting everyone's shit Why do you think this is? Do you really believe these efforts are not being taken by every major world covert agency?

At the scale the US is doing it? Absolutely. Tell me what "other major world covert agency" has these: - Gigantic data centres like the one in Utah - Practically all Internet data flowing through their territories - The large majority of all cloud storage user's data, and largest social network, in the world , with the added unchecked ability for this major covert agency to request query all this data - Strong influe…

How bad is the NL in general? I have family there, always thought it was a pretty free-minded country

Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera

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Post by sergiosgc »

agilebyte wrote: post #78
sergiosgc wrote: post #60

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Portugal just opened the largest EU datacenter. Connectivity infrastructure is really good in the country (heh, international debt had to go somewhere...). The government couldn't care less about snooping, although they are US-friendly to a fault. However, court approval is required for snooping and courts are slow moving and processes are open: Service providers may inform the customer about the snooping order and m…

Re your last point, is it not better if machines are in a colder climate?

Yes. The datacenter is up in the mountains (Covilhã), where it's colder.
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