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Just to make this clear, I don't doubt your personal integrity. However, I have lost faith in the ability of US-based companies using US-fiber and US datacente
by iSnow 13y ago
Just to make this clear, I don't doubt your personal integrity.
However, I have lost faith in the ability of US-based companies using US-fiber and US datacenters to protect against NSA snooping.
I am not naive - I have no doubt that German fiber is monitored as well, but afaik LE could gain access to your servers and serve you a gag order - something they could not do over here.
So, my comment was in no way specific to Stripe - I don't trust Google or Apple either.
- pc 13y agoYeah, I think that's generally reasonable, and I totally see where you're coming from. (Though I do believe that even though we're in the US, Stripe will do a better job of guarding the privacy of our customers than the vast majority companies.) Having said that, in the particular domain of electronic payments, I think that meaningful privacy is (sadly) a mostly unattainable goal: it seems safe to assume that the card companies themselves collaborate with all kinds of surveillance. Given that everything ultimately becomes a transaction on those networks, what happens at the edges matters less.