today at 8:46 PM
Problem is, where do you take a company like this if you want peace of mind that the new host country won't immediately try to pass a similar law?
today at 10:36 PM
Use a VPN from country that is hostile to the one you are living in. This way your own country won’t spy on you.
People tend to worry about other countries, but it is usually within the country they live in that they have to worry about their rights being infringed.
today at 10:04 PM
I've been working through my options per digital freedom, human dignity, and non-double-taxation as a US citizen. It's a depressingly short list.
today at 9:02 PM
The real use case for satellite-borne data centers.
today at 9:04 PM
I fail to see how a satellite data center would fix this unless the company was entirely off planet
today at 9:07 PM
Hell, the whole company could be located on that satellite if it transacts in crypto-currency.
today at 10:32 PM
Not possible. If all jurisdictions relinquish their claim over the satellite then it's open to being shot down.
The proliferation of space access goes both ways. LEO isn't exactly difficult to reach (many college teams can do it). GEO might work but then you need relays and any relay satellite are essentially tacitly complicit.
Satellite (and most aerospace related technologies) are glass cannons. They aren't defensible like a bunker or a tank.
today at 9:52 PM
Despite the hype, crypto is traceable. It is harder than other currencies and one transaction is probably untraceable. However if you are running a business you are going to get repeated payments from customers and repeatedly pay your employees and suppliers, which in turn creates enough data that they can track you down.
today at 9:58 PM
Mullvad accepts Monero (XMR), the most private and untraceable coin available today. Your point is correct for all others though.
today at 9:23 PM
Where do the people live…
today at 10:24 PM
This wouldn't work for companies that require humans for now.
today at 9:56 PM
How has no one mentioned the Sealand micro nation off the UK?
today at 10:25 PM
It's not relevant. The moment criminality (in the view of other nations with these kinds of laws) hosts itself there, they'll find themselves hauled in front of the UK courts, and find that their "micro nation" isn't recognised and that the UK both claims jurisdiction over them and is able to enforce it.
today at 9:51 PM
How does Mullvad do it? They also have Canadian servers.
today at 9:11 PM
Iceland.
today at 9:03 PM
Switzerland? Although they’re attempting to close in on this there too.
today at 9:32 PM
Didn't proton end up moving to Germany because of bad Swiss privacy laws?
today at 8:58 PM
today at 10:03 PM
I’m more concerned about OpenBSD. Given how centralized the project governance is, and its base in Canada, I can imagine the government attempting to (for example) force the project to serve backdoored images or updates to targeted people. A backdoor or bugdoor in the source would probably be spotted by someone, and I’m not even sure the bill allows a broad tool like that, but that’s not the only way to compromise software users.
Fortunately the mirrors are distributed, so maybe that reduces the risk.
today at 10:04 PM
Didn't this bill get amended to clarify that no encryption back doors are required?
today at 10:16 PM
It was amended to make them less likely, but even the Liberals are saying that it can still be used to target encryption.
And the legislation still requires mandatory data retention and interception capabilities for all VPNs, encrypted messaging services, and every other online service.
today at 7:35 PM
today at 9:52 PM
Why don't people ever realize that the more Liberal a government is, the more control they will demand from our lives.
today at 9:54 PM
They sell "give us more power, we'll protect you" well
today at 10:04 PM