Note to self: starting developing online collaborative planning tool for criminal activity that can be guaranteed secure from search warrants. High monetization potential.
I suspect that getting criminals to pay you might be difficult - and blackmailing them sounds dangerous ;)
Isn't that the other way around? Botnets sometimes blackmail (random-ish) ordinary folk into paying off criminals, rather than you getting criminals to pay you?
Remove the word 'criminal' above - and people living in non-democratic countries, such as Iran, Uzbekistan, Russia, China etc. will be very grateful to you.
Russia and Iran have democratically elected presidents. How is that non-democratic?. Democracy does not mean "complying to US dictates". Fully agree with the overall point though.
I could be misremembering, but I thought there was some pretty big hubbub over Iran's election!
Where as recent US elections have been almost entirely hubbub free. (I agree there is a difference in extremity)
I'm from Russia originally, and current political system doesn't look democratic to me - elections are forged, all TV is state owned/controlled, very few independent newspapers, government is corrupted, one political party is in charge with no alternatives etc. - but your mileage may vary of course.
Is anyone aware of any such services that actually allow encryption that _you_ control? I.e., keyed off a password you provide?
That wouldn't be controlling the encryption; that would be giving whoever runs the webserver your data and a key and hoping that they actually use the latter. Controlling encryption means you do the encryption.
Edit: Provided I'm understanding you correctly, of course. I might not have.
I think you miss understand him - the encryption would happen entirely on your side.
That way if a warrant was presented, all they would have would be a bunch of unreadable files.
I think tarsnap is the closest.
Other than the warrant being furnished "under seal" everything here seems to be above board.