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Comment by alfiejohn_ | Hacker News Reader

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We're already in Iceland - from http://blog.fastmail.fm/2012/07/03/a-story-of-leaping-second...

"We have a complete live-spare datacentre in Iceland. Eventually it will be a fully operational centre in its own right, but for now it’s running almost 100% in replica mode."

I'm not so sure about the safe-haveness of Switzerland these days. They already caved to the US, giving them access to banking info (what they're famous for... which leaves me wondering what Switzerland got in return):

  http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/28/uk-switzerland-usa-tax-idUKBRE97R0CY20130828

We have a complete live-spare datacentre in Iceland. Eventually it will be a fully operational centre in its own right

Let me know when that happens and I'll gladly sign up for your service :)

I'm not so sure about the safe-haveness of Switzerland these days. They already caved to the US, giving them access to banking info (what they're famous for... which leaves me wondering what Switzerland got in return):

I don't see how bank secrets have anything to do with Internet surveillance. There's a general tendency now both in the US and the EU to pressure tax havens such as Switzerland, Andorra, the Bahamas, etc. to give up their bank secrets so that corporations and rich individuals can't hide their income and avoid paying taxes. That seems fair enough, and I don't see a direct link between that and Internet surveillance.

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