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Fastmail is based in Australia.

https://www.fastmail.com/about/company.html

Hmm, I'll have to do more research, but I thought they used some American hosting. Perhaps I'm mistaken! I'll make a note in the comment, ty!

edit: I take that back, I'm not wrong, yay \o/.

https://blog.fastmail.com/2013/10/07/fastmails-servers-are-i...

They are in the US, it's just that the company itself isn't. So depending on your level of distrust of the US, that may or may not be an issue for you.

If you think you are safer from the NSA because a server is located outside the US, I've got some bad news for you: outside of the US, the NSA can do whatever they want as the US Constitution has no jurisdiction. Whether or not they are abusing the law within the US is up for debate, but outside the US there is nothing to stop them except technology.

That's fair - I wasn't raising it as a personal concern however, I was raising it because I've seen many other concerned about US involvements.

With that said, do you feel there's no difference in security when having servers in, or outside of the US?

A lot of people seem to distrust US involvement, and prefer out of US as much as possible. Do you think this is completely bunk, because the NSA is so unstoppable?

To me it just seems like being in the US just adds to possible problems. Thoughts?

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