Re:Playing chicken with cat.jpg
by teaspoon on Thursday January 19, 2012 @11:39AM
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Why should I care that the company is Swiss? The point of client-side encryption is that I don't need to worry about who's hosting my data or what jurisdiction they're under.
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See, for example, Hushmail, which has no option but to cooperate with correctly formed legal documents. This means that they use the passphrase (which they can capture within a short time) of the non-java-applet version of their software, or they serve a modified applet.
Being in a different jurisdiction provides a small amount of protection.