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If you think that operating in any particular jurisdiction provides you with protection then you are sadly deluded. Your protection lasts just up until the poi
by evgen 13y ago
If you think that operating in any particular jurisdiction provides you with protection then you are sadly deluded. Your protection lasts just up until the point where protecting you becomes inconvenient. Oddly enough, using the resources of smaller companies provides less protection because they are easier to influence, and basing services outside of the US means that you are completely fair game for the NSA as you lack even the nominal protection that the (waxing and waning, but currently too damn weak for my mind) domestic/foreign distinction offers in terms of US SIGINT.
- cmircea 13y agoThe NSA itself has exactly zero power outside the USA.
- Canada 13y agoThey have the active cooperation of many governments and they have a lot of 0 day.
- nhaehnle 13y agoEuropean snooping agencies seem to be quite happy to cooperate with them, so that argument doesn't really count.
- gknoy 13y agoBe careful that you do not equate "power" and "authority". As Canada mentions below, they have top talent, researchers, and likely many exploits. It seems foolish to believe that geographical location of entities on a globally connected network has a nontrivial bearing on whether the NSA can penetrate it.
- lttlrck 13y agoKey sentence: "Your protection lasts just up until the point where protecting you becomes inconvenient."