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the page takes user input & displays it in the background for the next visitor.

How bad is the NL in general? I have family there, always thought it was a pretty free-minded country

Precisely: many if not most websites have Google Analytics JS, so you're being tracked around the web (ghost profile) even without a google account.

Do carrier-pigeons count as a third-party?

> It's not an "oh well" attitude.

> I don't care if the NSA reads them..

Indeed. However, I've used Royal Mail (postal service in UK) all my life without thinking that I needed to worry about what I said - I always found that very liberating, looking back. Even postcards I assumed wouldn't be read by anyone, and certainly not photographed and archived permanently against my name. Given that IP traffic is replacing the postal service, to not have this assumption any longer is painful on several levels.

> You shouldn't be practicing security through good-will Fair enough. That said, the need to defend myself against a well equipped foreign government is just not a job I'm up to on my own. I'd prefer it if the government demonstrated goodwill, which would seem to be their job.

I believe the solution is political.

Brazil? haha. Iceland or Germany for sure. Finland, Eastern Europe, maybe?

Simply out of USA/UK jurisdiction would be good, as they're now demonstrably the worst in the West (at least it would certainly seem so based on recent news trends). So, anywhere else.

Sick of this nihilist attitude.

> the USA just did a bad job hiding the fact that you had none.

Er, no - the USA are the main ones wholesale intercepting everyone's shit - I'm not a US citizen and I don't like it in principle. I did have a pretty good expectation of privacy until they started doing that, because no-one else has the resources to do a similar whole-take surveillance effort.

Anyway, I signed up for Fastmail because I thought it was foreign to the USA (though later found out the servers are hosted in NYC - doh).

But seriously, I'd love to see an end to the "oh well" attitude. The stance I do take is "you're spying on and profiling me? Fuck you I'm leaving". And that helps me sleep at night, for better or worse.

Please please make this an excuse for a move away from hosting in the USA. A claim to respect privacy necessitates that.

It was marked as "never fix", though.

Further discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6393878 (from an earlier post, doh)

Lengthy but worth a listen.

Testimony from Jaques Follorou (Le Monde), Jacob Appelbaum, Alan Rusbridger (The Guardian), Carlos Coelho MEP, Gerhard Schmid ex-MEP & Duncan Campbell.

There's a key speech here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu6accTBjfs&t=2h23m1s

"BTW, Just read that O2 UK are blocking VPN traffic....."

Where does it say that? I can't find it

Truecrypt is open source. Can anyone find the backdoor?

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"And, in the face of not knowing, why default to an explanation other than what has been given to us?"

gut feeling based on existing evidence and experience.

Perhaps, but they were caught pretty fast already, to be honest. The insinuation is that somehow this technology would have prevented the attacks in the first place, which is highly improbable.

Well, we know they archive Facebook content so go figure

> "While this sort of technology may have benefits for law enforcement (recall that the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were identified with help from camera footage), it also invites abuse."

1. Yes /without/ this technology, and

2. How would that have prevented the Boston tragedy if it were in use?

What exactly does NYT mean here.

Won't syncing an encrypted file store result in a lot of sync churning each time you modify a file inside, because deltas won't work?

Why do they want to do all this? I don't get it. It's so plainly wrong, what's their MO behind the scenes? Surely it's not just all a thinly-veiled pulling up of the draw bridge between 'us' and 'them'? I mean, what do the politicians talk about between themselves when they decide to do this shit.

That's one hell of a goddamn tip. As someone who recently closed their Google account, this will come in handy. Thanks.

maybe not forever - sounds like he wants to relaunch it eventually. Good luck to you.

Well, this is my 10th day - we shall see. I have my fingers triple crossed (ouch) but I'm not holding my breath.

> look at the quality of their API documentations twitch maybe it's a personality clash, but I can't stand Google's documentation style, it's not well explained or laid out.

> The problem is that people foolishly assume that the plaintext packets they send online are private by default The NSA are trying to decrypt encrypted messages too though, tapping VPNs etc. It's not like they're just surveilling plaintext comms.

> people foolishly assume Yes those ignorant fools deserve everything they get for not being security enthusiasts, and for assuming good faith on the part of their government, right?

Has Snowden given you any reason to think that he'd do that? The guy must be principled as shit to have done what he's done in the first place.

What do the recent leaks have to do with Putin? What relevance is there in what you're saying? Sometimes it's not a binary 'good guys vs bad guys'.

Yeah you're right, he's an irreconcilable traitor. Though I mean, it's a bit of an assumptive jump from whistleblower to turncloak spy, but I'm totally with you. Although.. he did give the data to journalists, and not to Putin. And he did plan to go further but got his passport cancelled.. But yeah, I'm sure the jump you made there is sound.. there is after all an exhaustive list of alternative places that would have sheltered him. Right?

I wonder how big a jump it would be to have some mandated service running on every machine, to sidestep increased encrypted Internet traffic? Still seems unlikely but I've been so surprised by the level of apathy by most to this that I can almost imagine it

..and the worldwide hoovering up of internet traffic, for surveillance purposes.

cool - thanks