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Re:ProtonVPN by secfirstmd on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @03:33PM (#14597750)
Swiss being a bastion of privacy for anything other than banking should be taken with a pinch of salt. They've been up to their neck in crypto cooperation with the NSA since at least the Crypto AG scandal if not longer.
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Re:ProtonVPN by bogomipz on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @07:07PM (#14599316)
>"Swiss being a bastion of privacy for anything other than banking ..."

The secrecy of Swiss banking actually ended a couple of years ago:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/19/news/switzerland-tax-evasion...

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