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I've been a happy customer for several years now. I've had zero problems with them, but I also don't use the web interface for anything other than managing my a
by bcl 13y ago
I've been a happy customer for several years now. I've had zero problems with them, but I also don't use the web interface for anything other than managing my accounts (one feature is you can easily setup and manage family members accounts).
I don't think that moving outside the US would make any practical difference. Any mail sent to their servers from my regular correspondents would pass through NSA monitored sites as they left the US and I pull everything off using IMAP over SSL anyway so there isn't anything stored there for them to seize.
Your email correspondence, unless encrypted with pgp, really should be considered no different than sending a postcard in the mail. It can be intercepted and copied at any number of points along the way.
- workhere-io 13y agoAny mail sent to their servers from my regular correspondents would pass through NSA monitored sites as they left the US Sure, but a lot of HN readers and potential FastMail customers live in places where traffic to/from FastMail's servers wouldn't be intercepted by the NSA (if the servers were in Norway). So while moving servers to Norway wouldn't make a difference to you, it would for a lot of other people.
- bcl 13y agoMaybe. But I wouldn't count on it, and you're better off assuming that you are monitored instead of depending on a server location. To me the most compelling argument would be seizure laws. If you are one of those people who use the mail server as a data store then it would be worthwhile to have it in a place that would resist attempts to grab the hardware.