[liberationtech] In defense of client-side encryption

[Tom O]

So re Germany bring the bastion of Internet freedom blah blah, are we all
forgetting about the Staatstrojaner?

Or have we forgiven them for that now?

On Tuesday, August 13, 2013, Arjen Kamphuis wrote:

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> Hi Francisco,
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> On 08/12/2013 10:04 PM, Francisco Ruiz wrote:
> > Hey Arjen, you make a huge point. Unfortunately the Netherlands
> > aren't any better this way, are they?
>
> They are not, being a fully signed up member of the Coalition of the
> Killing. And that is why I left in 2008. Societies that happily allow
> themselves to be ruled by warcriminals have a tendency to end in bad
> places. Germans understand this to some extent from experience.
> Americans and the Dutch obviously have yet to learn this lesson and I
> do not want to be there when that happens.
>
> > Looking around, it seems the only "safe" place for a crypto server
> > these days would be Switzerland. I'm ready to move my stuff over
> > there.
>
> I prefer the Swiss for both their constitution, decentralized government
> and the principled way in wish the .ch TLD is being run.
>
> The other country in Europe would be Germany. They have good
> infrastructure as well and also a fairly strong constitution designed
> to defend citizens *against* any overbearing government (and a
> constitutional court that actually does its job). Regrettably they
> still have several tens of thousands foreign troops stationed inside
> their borders so their independence is ultimatly limited.
>
> The Netherlands has great bandwith but is a defacto US puppet state
> who will hand over both citizens and systems to US control on demand.
>
> > Does anybody know of a good, cheap, SSL-enabled web host in
> > Switzerland you can recommend? Gendo, maybe?
>
> We are a pure consultancy and do not sell products or operational
> services ;-) For some tips and links see my earlier post in this thread.
>
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> Arjen Kamphuis
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