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> Refuse to comply with unfair laws? And do what exactly, go to prison? Expecting that is unreasonable at best.

• southerntofu 5y ago
  When was the last time you heard of sysadmins ending up in prison, apart from obvious criminal conspiracies like Silk Road? see my other comment in this thread for more detail on how that's a misinformed argument: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28434187 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28434187
  • ur-whale 5y ago
    > apart from obvious criminal conspiracies like Silk Road You are being downvoted because the only person to whim Silk road is an "obvious" criminal conspiracy is you.
    • southerntofu 5y ago
      haha thanks for explaining. I'm personally not in favor of drug criminalization, i was referring to the fact that by law that is considered a criminal conspiracy. but also i'm not exactly super fan of defending Silk Road, since there was some "hitman hiring" scheme involved at some point in the operation
• JasonFruit 5y ago
  This is exactly the point: never expect that the people running a service are going to go to prison or pay a significant fine to protect you. It's not going to happen. You need good OPSEC, yourself, because you don't want to go to prison.
  • southerntofu 5y ago
    I partially agree, and partially disagree. No i don't expect volunteer sysadmins to take huge risks for me. However, i expect huge organizations like Protonmail who claim to care for privacy to do just that. Moreover, the risks in this case are not big because this is a clear case of political repression and any form of judicial scrutiny would have raised considerable eyebrows.