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A comment on It’s Always Sunny in Reykjavik or How I NSA-Proofed My Email (2013). Parent comment

Re:It’s Always Sunny in Reykjavik or How I NSA-Proofed My Em... by emmetjumbleio on Monday December 21, 2015 @10:51AM (#10771614)
Europe is a safer place than Iceland to host data and it will be interesting to watch how the "Microsoft" case plays out in the Irish courts over the coming months.
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Re:It’s Always Sunny in Reykjavik or How I NSA-Proofed My Em... by throwaway7767 on Monday December 21, 2015 @11:04AM (#10771677)
Safer for whom, and from whom?

If your adversary is the NSA, you need to determine how interested they are in you. If you're on the shortlist, I doubt any national borders or legal frameworks will protect you - TAO doesn't respect them.

If it's law enforcement like in the Ulbricht case, some countries may have stricter requirements for a local search warrant to be issued. But I doubt you can make such a sweeping generalisation about "europe".

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