Yes, extreme incompetence is not good. BTW I haven't seen much evidence about US pressure regarding unpleasantness in .se (I assume you mean Assange). Anyway,

Yes, extreme incompetence is not good. BTW I haven't seen much evidence about US pressure regarding unpleasantness in .se (I assume you mean Assange). Anyway, I sort of like the incompetence level in Greece. They haven't been able to set up a land registry, so that the government could collect property taxes. That sounds promising from the point of view of setting up a privacy-respecting net service. There is a mostly reliable supply of electricity and communications, and it's not a very bad a place to live.