herrschindler
Re:Hacking Protonmail... with a browser.
on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @02:32AM (#8003268)
Working assumption for this "NSA secure email" apparently was "the NSA does not have a web browser."
KDE's Aaron Seigo explaining why he's paying email service MyKolab.com
Re:Who Has Your Back 2014: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests
on Friday May 16, 2014 @04:39AM (#7754443)
So the EFF is now becoming the lobby for the US surveillance companies?
Several of these companies built their business model on commercial surveillance of their users with the purpose of monetizing their data directly or indirectly.
And these are the companies that are supposed to "have my back"? Really?
Re:Mailbox.org: German email service w/encryption, server located in G...
on Monday February 24, 2014 @02:46PM (#7292985)
You've never been to Switzerland, have you?
The price of an extra large coffee at Starbucks per month for highly secure groupware accounts? Surely, that is obscene. </irony>
Re:Mailbox.org: German email service w/encryption, server located in G...
on Monday February 24, 2014 @02:41PM (#7292956)
Before you consider hosting your mail in Germany, you might want to consider these:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=ht... http://rt.com/news/german-spy-agency-nsa-051/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/europe-wont-save-...
TL;DR:
Article 10 of the German has provisions that allow bypassing all data protection law. All providers above 10,000 users are required to install governmental snooping devices that are capable of getting full emails and not "just" metadata. And the 4th amendment of the US constitution does not protect you in Germany.
So as far as Germany is concerned you may just be worse off than hosting with Google.
Re:Mailbox.org: German email service w/encryption, server located in G...
on Monday February 24, 2014 @02:29PM (#7292854)
As much as I appreciate their kind offer to compromise my key and hand it to the German authorities for forwarding to the NSA, I must politely decline. ;)
Re:If You Used TorMail, the FBI Has Your Inbox
on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @05:20AM (#7136320)
As long as people think the issue is technical only, they'll keep choosing providers that cannot hold the promise they make. Legislation and local provisions should be very high on your list. So far, Switzerland seems like the best legislation of choice according to this article: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/switzerland-wont-...
Of course the author seems to disagree, especially when you look at the title, but that seems only because of some odd fascination with gag orders which seem largely irrelevant in real life as several comments have pointed out.
Re:Forced Exposure
on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @07:17AM (#6242911)
Comment of the CEO of the service PJ chose for her communications: http://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/?p=625
"While we’re happy to provide a privacy asylum in a safe legislation, society should not need them. Privacy should be the default, not the exception."
So it's come down to privacy asylums and digital refugee camps now. WTF?