Yes its a good thing the result is what it is, but you watch, theyll try to use it as justification. And as a small(ish) fyi, try running a tracert on whatever site youre looking at. Unless you are directly connected to that site, there are likely multiple hops -domains- that your connection passes through to get from your machine to the target. Each one of those has the potential to read what youre doing and reporting on it.
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Well not exactly. They might be reading the metadata of your lower level packages.
Unless you're not using encryption, then wth are you even doing?
You forget the nsa, interpol. I remember back in the 90s there was a blurb about hackers sniffing packets and using that data to hack those systems. Gotta remember back then everyone had more open ports than shanghai
I mean yeah, maybe? Are you one of the people that believes aes or ecc has a backdoor? I think we'd know by now, and I'm certain they don't have the compute to break aes256.
Keep believing that. Just because all those ports are closed to you and me is no guaratee that theyre not being keyed for them
Yeah sure. There is no perfect security, but your paranoia is not only impractical but conspiratory.
Im not paranoid about anything. I merely read what gets published and sift out the trash
As much as some of us may dislike it when a company does these kinds of things. You can't really blame them for following the laws of the country that they are headquartered in.
You can blame them for operating there to begin with in cases like Apple in China, but you could hardly blame them for following the laws of the US where they are headquartered for example.
If the law of the land where the headquarters is requires them to give up the data they do have to partner nations then they don't really have much choice in the long run if they want to continue to exist.
"Nobody's going to jail for you" is pretty much the way to think about any cloud privacy service. They may not keep logs unless they're required to, but in the end, they will comply to stay in business.
Plus there isn't many jurisdictions with stronger privacy law than the swiss. It is unlike they made a bad choice for choosing a headquarters.
I guess they can operate on the public sea or the arctic, but I imagine the commute will be terrible.
If you use ANYTHING other than face to face meetings when discussing something illegal, you get what you deserve.
Or use WhatsApp like most of criminals
it's compromised (explicitly part of PRISM). nice try FBI shill
Although I like the idea of a drug smuggler typing "as per my previous email..."
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