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Privacy tools against surveillance
- na85 12y ago>All providers listed here are operating outside the USA, accepting Bitcoin and using OpenVPN. While I applaud this decision, NSA is known to have a dedicated group of people working to break VPN traffic[0]. I'm wondering how many of these non-US providers are any more secure than US-based ones. Just how many talented security professionals can there be in e.g. Seychelles, a country barely twice the size of the NSA? Furthermore, any NATO country can't really be trusted, even if they're not part of the so-called "5 eyes" alliance. That rules out Italy and Iceland, as their governments will surely raid datacenters if asked by the US. The Assange shenanigans showed us that the Swedes will kowtow to US interests if under sufficient pressure, so that rules Sweden out. Gibraltar is surely subject to the whims of GCHQ, being a British overseas territory. The Panama Canal being a strategic geo-political hotspot means I'd be absolutely shocked if US intelligence wasn't running all over Panama's tech infrastructure like ants on a mound of sugar. That leaves Malaysia and Switzerland as the only sane choices. [0] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/nsa-has-vpns-in-vulcan-death-grip-no-really-thats-what-they-call-it/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/nsa-has-vpns-in-v...
- java-man 12y agoTrust No One.