donrememberpass

Still, that's not the point. The point is that all this madness is so fragile and stupid that it can give lever for digital businesses overseas to have competitive edge on yours by both not being forced to waste resources building backdoors and surveillance into their systems(which also make them less secure) and also by making them have an advantage no USA business will be allowed to have ever, which is to offer privacy. It's probably what MEGA was thinking.

Now when and if this happens the FBI will really see what's 'going dark'. Of course, they have plenty of means to try influencing things their ways but it's utterly unmanageable, if they choose to hack the servers and news break that US Government agencies are hacking into legitimate businesses overseas, it's not gonna sit well with both governments(Brazil, for example, is historically a pacific country that tries to not interfere with anyone, how will you make it into a terrorist country?) and to the general population, they can also do it politically but this won't sit well with the country's population too and are sure to have 'anti-american' vibes increasing, besides that, each country has it's culture and takes on civil liberties(and the chopping of them) and also it's own interests and industries it allows to influence it's politics, in Brazil that would be Meat, Soil, Mining, Cars industries... and if allowing privacy(or, at least, keeping civilian basic constitutional rights) ends up helping the economy too then it may also be a choice to be considered to support it too, right? Dunno if Hollywood bullshit will stick everywhere, and going heavy-handed on other countries matters are sure to spread the shit, there's plenty of countries in the world.

Is this a good time already to start building service clones from other countries that have a big stamp on it:

"FBI-SAFE! 100% guarantee there's no ~FBI CRAMPS~ on your private communication, photos, locations, likes, etc we respect your privacy and we care for the future of mankind! Want to live in dystopian 1984 future in just about 10 years? We don't, too!

(service hosted and maintained in Brazil)"