Re:Dead Simple VPN
by Lordarminius on Sunday July 21, 2019 @04:26AM
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That's an idea but it might make for a somewhat fragile business model subject to the whims of Uncle Sam's attention
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Sure yeah the Feds can regulate anything they want on tribal land
For most business and domestic issues they just lack enforcers, interest, will
For data yeah it would create a silly game if there were attractive hosting privileges. But there still might be a business play here: people flock to Iceland and Switzerland on pure misinterpretations of what a law means in practice.
There was a founder here that chose Iceland servers because of no formal data sharing agreement with US, and people showed case law where the FBI merely asked Reyjavik police to tap a server.
Point being that it could still be a cash cow for US reservations
That wasn't just any server, it was The Silk Road. The Icelandic authorities went through their own court process, though, getting whatever their equivalent to a search warrant is first, then turning over a complete image of the server to the FBI.
> The Icelandic authorities went through their own court process, though, getting whatever their equivalent to a search warrant is first, then turning over a complete image of the server to the FBI.
Which reinforces my point? These countries offer people nothing.