Saturday, August 10, 2013

Email service used by Snowden shuts itself down

Secret courts and anti-constitutional behaviour. Deeply disturbing.

This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States."

I use GMail, Google Drive, Apple's iCloud, DropBox and various other US-based or US-connected services to store or manage my private data. Migrating away from these services would be painful and difficult but if the US continues its drive toward a police state then maybe it will be necessary. We can only hope that they are able to get a grip on their security services and rein in their paranoia. 

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