It’s Always Sunny in Reykjavik or How I NSA-Proofed My Email (2013)

Re:It’s Always Sunny in Reykjavik or How I NSA-Proofed My Em... by yownie on Monday December 21, 2015 @10:15AM (#10771418)

Hi, Iceland checking in here. While we appreciate you hosting here, we're by no means any safer than other countries now. First I'll note that this posting is from 2013, so quite a bit has changed here since that time. IMMI (immi.is) is still being hashed out in parliaments and making slow progress. Meanwhile we've had some particularly ridiculous public spectacles regarding ppl hosting data here in Iceland thinking it was safe. Here's a few:

Silk Road Iceland http://www.wired.com/2014/09/the-fbi-finally-says-how-it-leg...

ISIS domain name take down http://english.alarabiya.net/en/media/digital/2014/10/18/In-...

Iceland ISP's block TPB http://grapevine.is/news/2015/09/16/icelandic-isps-will-bloc...

Iceland BGP route attack http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2014/02/bgp-hi...

Rememeber that ashley madison hack? our prime minister had credentials on it! http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/icelandic-minister-financ...

Iceland seeks to ban porn http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/25/iceland-seeks-i...

I won't even get into our limited internet connectivity and resulting high IP transit rates. I'm not saying don't host here in Iceland, but do some research first.

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Re:It’s Always Sunny in Reykjavik or How I NSA-Proofed My Em... by valdiorn on Monday December 21, 2015 @12:29PM (#10772188)

Also from Iceland; can confirm that the Icelandic govt. has taken a 180 on online civil liberties and privacy since the early days of the IMMI, which also never really made it into law.

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Re:It’s Always Sunny in Reykjavik or How I NSA-Proofed My Em... by yownie on Monday December 21, 2015 @05:44PM (#10774111)

Well, it goes both ways with that one, the PPI (full disclosure here, I'm one of the founders) is keeping them on constant scrutiny which is good, imho. IMMI status is a mixed bag, the parliamentary committee is still convened however. As of todays date 5 out of 13 law proposals have succeeded. Like all law proposals it takes time and political will.

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Re:It’s Always Sunny in Reykjavik or How I NSA-Proofed My Em... by nickpsecurity on Monday December 21, 2015 @12:59PM (#10772350)

Thanks for the links. So, what's the word on how much they protect something that's not a crime in Iceland, not proven to be criminal in general (eg crypto app site), and demanded highly by FBI?

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Re:It’s Always Sunny in Reykjavik or How I NSA-Proofed My Em... by yownie on Monday December 21, 2015 @05:38PM (#10774077)

Same as any other country I would imagine. If anything we benefit a little further here, since we're so small (pop. 320,000 in total) we tend not to have enough people to do a thorough job of much. Everyone tends to wear several hats. You should be fine, just take necessary technical precautions too, like FDE.

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