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Your kinda proving parents point. To get email content outside the USA, there are no rules. NSA can do more or less what they want to obtain that data (hack,bri
by mox1 5y ago
Your kinda proving parents point. To get email content outside the USA, there are no rules. NSA can do more or less what they want to obtain that data (hack,bribe,etc.)
within the US, it requires some type of judicial process. You can argue about corrupt judges, power tripping FBI agents, etc. etc. but the fact is, its harder to obtain this data inside the USA.
Further, if you are just committing regular old crimes, the FBI will need to run some type of parallel reconstruction IF they obtained your data using less than pristine methods.
What DoJ attorney would risk their career cause some dumb-ass FBI agent went rogue and pistol whipped the sys-admin for the data?!?!?!?!
- tptacek 5y agoI'm not even trying to say you're meaningfully protected by US jurisdiction. I personally think you are, but I won't try to win the argument, and I think reasonable people can certainly disagree. I'm just saying that, if nothing else, selecting a smaller provider with fewer security resources just to get outside of the US is not a win with respect to mass surveillance.
- ikerdanzel 5y agoIf you read finish, he basically proved to host it outside USA or any 5eyes. Hacking is way more difficult than pushing a button. This is why FBI insist a backdoor key for phone manufacturers.
- tptacek 5y agoIf we're not on the same page about why it's harder to crack the encrypted filesystem of a locked recent-model iPhone than it is to hack into an always-on database-backed SMTP email service, there's little point in us debating this further.