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For those now lauding non-US companies: keep in mind that you can not be certain that they aren't under any local intelligence orders and if/when they plan to e
by rasterizer 13y ago
For those now lauding non-US companies: keep in mind that you can not be certain that they aren't under any local intelligence orders and if/when they plan to enter the massive US market they will probably be tapped as well.
- pilsetnieks 13y agoFrankly, in my opinion, while EU-based companies with their privacy laws may have some high ground to stand on, of the others, the common web startup with, say, the .ly domain name certainly invites at least as much worry as anything else hosted in the US. At least, hopefully, this debacle would cause some realistic assessment of the situation with regards to privacy, legality, and data retention instead of, for example, purposefully routing data through third-world totalitarian regimes just because their TLDs sound cool. (I know how DNS works; and it doesn't matter that your servers are elsewhere.)
- icebraining 13y agoIf you know how DNS works, why do you say that data is being routed through totalitarian regimes? Not even the DNS replies have to be.