That's an issue with plain text data. However, nowadays absolutely no sensitive data should be transferred/stored unencrypted. The problem is, that it seems like eavesdropping is not enough for some certain governments and now they require physical access / backdoors to companies' servers in order to bypass encryption and/or other security means. What I, and few others have suggested is to move services away from such countries so their governments would have harder times to obtain physical access.
> The problem is, that it seems like eavesdropping is not enough for some certain governments and now they require physical access / backdoors to companies' servers in order to bypass encryption and/or other security means. What I, and few others have suggested is to move services away from such countries so their governments would have harder times to obtain physical access.
Many governments are much worse than the US; they not only snoop on data but they imprison or kill people as a result of the things they find.
I'd be interested to hear about countries who will i) stand up against the US & ii) not be at large risk of corrupt employees.
(http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2012/egypt) etc.
I am much more worried by corrupt workers in my ISP or telephony provider than I am about my government.