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At least they stopped getting Chinese dissidents locked up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Yahoo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Yahoo!
by locusm 13y ago
At least they stopped getting Chinese dissidents locked up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Yahoo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Yahoo!
- rfctr 13y agoIn USA Yahoo complies with US laws. In China Yahoo complies with Chinese laws. Dura lex sed lex.
- Zigurd 13y agoAll of these services could provide convenient key exchange, web-of-trust, secure email and storage, and secure communications services with ephemeral keys. They might have to charge money to do so, but they could all raise the cost of surveillance by orders of magnitude, if not make it impractical, and remain within US law. If they wanted to.
- pyre 13y agoThe company has changed leadership since then. One can hope for things to get better.
- rfctr 13y agoAs long as laws in particular jurisdiction remain the same, nothing could change much. May be gets a little less public, eh.
- pyre 13y agoThe Wikipedia article seems to imply that Google and Microsoft keep their users' private data outside of China, which means they don't have to comply, but IANA(Chinese)L.