Dienstag, 20. August 2013

Take your data and go to Switzerland?


We have found a new holy grail of privacy. It protects us from NSA and even from Britannia with their extensive surveillance systems. And it has decades of experience in making a business from what other people want to hide. But today it's not the usual black money from sport stars, soccer managers, mafia or autocrats to hide. Today it is much more political correct to go to switzerland with your data.

It's a common thing in capitalism that desasters foster creativity and profit, so nothing is wrong about offering i.e. a mail service in switzerland. It might be a clever idea for companies to host their data their too, if they are in fear of spying. But there is one thing I  just do not understand: why shall I feel save in switzerland? Because there is nothing in the news yet? Because they need a court order to access your email and data? Does anyone really know what this means? Is it difficult or even impossible to get this order? Is it public when an order is issued? And if it is save today, how long will it be that way?

Don't get me wrong: I appreciate these offers, even if they are expensive (like everything in switzerland). What I do not like is the claim that everything is save just because it is in switzerland. But maybe mykolab.com - they offer a email service hoisted in switzerland- knows the answers. I tried to find out. Unfortunately the beware-of-the-nsa-campaign seems to work so well, that their servers are down (written at 15:33 CEST) . At least I hope it is for that reason.

3 Kommentare:

  1. The Drupal web site was brought to its knees by the onslaught for a couple of minutes. The actual service remained blissfully unaffected, though. It's running in a different data centre, even.

    So feel free to give it another look at https://mykolab.com and as to "what does that mean" - one of the beauties of Switzerland is its strong culture of liberty and transparency.

    So it's all public, we provide the links at https://mykolab.com/privacy and also have some further info in the FAQ.

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  2. I didn't even know that swizerland has it's own internet architecture, unaffected by the rest of the world/net ;)

    When the NSA and Brittan is doing what they seem to do, the whole "host your data in X = safe" is nothing more than a marketing thing like "safe email made in Germany".

    You always have to access/interact with your data, so there is a way to sniff.

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  3. I am happy that it was just a weak webserver :-)

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