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   by workhere-io 13y ago

   Not sure, but the good news is that the current method in itself works great.
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   by workhere-io 13y ago

   Sure, but who says every major browser will be controlled by a US legal entity five years from now?
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   by workhere-io 13y ago

   I know. That's why I wrote in the article that they will need to move "both the legal entity behind [Persona] and the servers involved" to another country :) They don't necessarily need to move the Mozilla organization,
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   by workhere-io 13y ago

   > NSA is good at MITM attacks according to Snowden. Moving outside the USA won't stop them. If they do MITM attacks, it will probably be on US citizens. Moving Persona out of the US would at least stop the snooping on non-US citizen
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   by workhere-io 13y ago

   As stated elsewhere there's a difference between how Persona works now and how it eventually will work. Persona at this stage is stable and works very well, but it does communicate with and send private data to persona.org, which is ow
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   by workhere-io 13y ago

   > The reason this is such a big deal is that the US (on paper anyway) is built on a tenet of civil liberties which is/was unique. The US didn't invent most of those liberties. Your assumption that those liberties are not part o
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   by workhere-io 13y ago

   > You can self-host the js files wherever you like Sure, but those files would still open the persona.org pop-up, AFAIK (until Persona has been implemented directly in the browser). So until then persona.org could theoretically gather da
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   by workhere-io 13y ago

   Thanks for the snarky comment, but the fact that there are countries with overreaching intelligence agencies doesn't mean that every country is like that. In most countries a warrant will get you access to private data - but what the N
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   by workhere-io 13y ago

   > Mozilla Persona is federated, so the BrowserId service is provided by the email provider. Mozilla provide a fallback service, in case your email provider hasn't set one up. So just pick an email provider in the country of your cho
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    by workhere-io 13y ago

    I agree, but it's especially important for Persona.
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    Mozilla should move Persona out of the US(blog.workhere.io)

    401 points by workhere-io 13y ago|93 comments
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    by workhere-io 13y ago

    There's also Jottacloud ( http://www.jottacloud.com/ ), a Norwegian Dropbox alternative.
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    Persona examples in Python and PHP(github.com)

    3 points by workhere-io 13y ago|0 comments