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Are France any better? they outlawed encryption long after the Americans had given up on it.

• dewey 12y ago
  Probably not, just trying to keep the facts straight. Offsite backups should always be encrypted on the client side, so it doesn't really matter where the provider is located or if it's trustworthy. (except for things like reliability / retrievability).
  • msh 12y ago
    Can't disagree with that.
• renaudg 12y ago
  That is quite an outlandish statement, encryption is absolutely not outlawed in France. The government is however, currently brewing an awful local version of the Patriot Act just as the US seems to be dismantling it.
  • msh 12y ago
    Please read the history of encryption, France outlawed it for many years and then in the start only allowed weak encryption.