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Re:Protonet: secure, private, and beautiful cloud servers by TheOtherHobbes on Monday March 14, 2016 @10:04PM (#11286984)
The US, UK, and most nations friendly to the US are not those countries.

There have been too many cases of police and/or security services rolling up at private addresses or small offices, bundling all the hardware they find into a van, and forcing innocent people to spend huge sums on lawyers to have any hope of getting it back.

A box on your desk is not the right answer to this problem.

Some kind of massively redundant disintermediated public data network might be, but we don't really have one of those yet.

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Re:Protonet: secure, private, and beautiful cloud servers by ams6110 on Monday March 14, 2016 @10:17PM (#11287015)
To be fair this is not new, a truck pulling up and movers taking all the filing cabinets (or slapping government seals on them) is the way it used to be done.

If your local server filesystems are encrypted, then it's actually safer from that sort of thing than the file cabinets used to be.

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