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This reasoning is backwards. Host a service in the US and it is at least protected from arbitrary monitoring by the NSA by US law. Host it abroad and you have n
by idlewords 8y ago
This reasoning is backwards. Host a service in the US and it is at least protected from arbitrary monitoring by the NSA by US law. Host it abroad and you have no such protection.
- AdriaanvRossum 8y agoI think protection by the NSA is a though sell nowadays.
- tptacek 8y agoI don't think that's really the sell. The sell is that hosting within the US is the only protection you can have from NSA, since they have a total, unencumbered free hand when it comes to services hosted outside the US, without even a legal formalism to stop them. Like all national SIGINT agencies, breaking into everything outside their own borders is literally their chartered job.
- idlewords 8y agoThis is protection against the NSA. My point is that within the United States, there are at least some legal and procedural protections (however flimsy you think they are) which do not apply to a service hosted abroad.
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- derpherpsson 8y agoYou are missing the point. The customers and users that are outside of the USA is being wiretapped by the NSA. And the NSA cooperates with GCHQ etc (the five eyes) to monitor us citizen. Or maybe you didn't read the article before you replied with some isolationist 'merica-standpoint
- tptacek 8y agoThe guidelines ask you not to make arguments like that. You should especially refrain from them when you don't understand the argument you're attempting to rebut.