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Host in Russia. You all saw how the Snowden issue was handled.

Just don't do anything that would attract FSB's attention.

Snowden isn't a general purpose tool. As far as Russia is concerned, he presents no threat to them; it's not like they are going to let him pursue a career in the FSB.

This service however is a general purpose tool. It would attract the attention of the FSB immediately.

Exactly. A lot of the fallout from this seems to be revolving around the idea of getting a service in 'not the USA'. Never mind the fact that: a) The US has been shown to actively compromise targets in their ally's jurisdictions and then share that information. We can assume allies are doing similar. b) Countries not allied to the US are not necessarily your friends either.

Odd times, when the data havens proposed by Neal Stephenson in his sci-fi books start to look more and more important... to the citizens of (supposedly) the most freedom-loving country in the world.

Host in Brazil, we're never at war so spying, national security and etc budgets are always low, besides, we can barely handle basic stuff like education, security, public transport, so if there's a BRPrism, part of the money probably goes to some corrupt, and then it must be shitty!

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