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Re:ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway by JupiterMoon on Sunday November 08, 2015 @08:28AM (#10528426)
I seriously doubt that the "let's fight" option was anywhere near the table when India gained independence. The records will all be public by now.

> As for Britain giving up its ownership: To this date formally England lays claim to a whole bunch of places that they have colonized and in some cases it has gone to war to keep that situation as it is.

Examples in post Suez history include?

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Re:ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway by nugga on Sunday November 08, 2015 @08:49AM (#10528461)
He's probably talking about Malvinas (Falklands) among other places.
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Re:ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway by notahacker on Sunday November 08, 2015 @10:47AM (#10528774)
If the Falklands had actually had any native inhabitants at the time it was "colonised", and the UK's military involvement hadn't been at the behest of the Falklands' contemporary native inhabitants to repel an invading foreign military dictatorship, they might have had more of a point...

"Other places" do not exist unless you name them. Even the Chagos Islands, the UK's most questionable overseas possession, have only been fought over in the courts.

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Re:ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway by JupiterMoon on Sunday November 08, 2015 @09:17AM (#10528523)
The Falklands are not a colonial story (unless you count the Argentinian desire to conquer them against the wishes of their citizens).

Any actual places?

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Re:ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway by bprieto on Sunday November 08, 2015 @11:36AM (#10528925)
Gibraltar
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Re:ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway by JupiterMoon on Sunday November 08, 2015 @12:12PM (#10529018)
I had no idea the UK had fought a war to stop the people of Gibraltar obtaining independence and self determination. Can you point me towards some references on the subject?
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Re:ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway by walshemj on Sunday November 08, 2015 @01:19PM (#10529272)
Who overwhelmingly don't want to become Spanish.
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