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From Wikipedia: "ProtonMail maintains and owns its server hardware and network in order to avoid trusting a third party. It maintains two data centres in Lausa
by lrsjng 8y ago
From Wikipedia:
"ProtonMail maintains and owns its server hardware and network in order to avoid trusting a third party. It maintains two data centres in Lausanne and Attinghausen (in the former K7 military bunker under 1,000 meters of granite rock) for redundancy. Since the data centres are located in Switzerland, they are legally outside of US and EU jurisdiction. Under Swiss law, all surveillance requests from foreign countries must go through a Swiss court and are subject to international treaties. Prospective surveillance targets are notified and can appeal the request in court."
"As of December 2018, FastMail and all other Australian companies are subject to the Assistance and Access Bill, which compells them to provide backdoors for accessing encrypted communications if warranted by law enforcement. The company stated that concerns over the bill has affected their business."
- peach 8y agoI think this settles it.
- evolve2k 8y agoI request you don’t judge too quickly, Fastmail have responded that it doesn’t affect them directly and at the same time they are fighting for users on this on every front. “As we have stated in the past, FastMail’s business is not directly affected by this legislation and we won’t be making changes to our technology or policies in response to this act.” https://fastmail.blog/2019/02/28/aabill-and-fastmail/ https://fastmail.blog/2019/02/28/aabill-and-fastmail/
- closeparen 8y agoSo ProtonMail responds to Swiss warrants, and Fastmail to Australian warrants. Is either jurisdiction clearly better?
- SheinhardtWigCo 8y agoThe Australian ones come with a gag order.
- doorbellguy 8y agoThank you!
- setr 8y agoFastmail doesn’t even provide encryption in the first place, does it? There wouldn’t be anything to backdoor; you’d still be pgp’ing yourself