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Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now
(theintercept.com)
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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that's not good enough anymore. decades ago the US put enough pressure on switzerland to end the use of anonymous banking and set up what's called SWIFT and KYC. do you really think putting datacenters in other countries will be enough protection like banks in switzerland "was"?
Of course not! For this reason you need different providers and jurisdictions for datacenters, operating systems, encryption providers.
It’s the very same principle tor works: sure you can do traffic analysis and be able to “unmask” a tor user… and for this reason tor deliberately sends traffic across 3 different jurisdictions. Is it still possible to force 3 different nodes to cooperate for the unmasking? Sure… but you need 3 jurisdictions to collaborate with that.
Also, fun fact: bank secrecy is still in effect for Swiss residents (regardless of the citizenship) and people resident outside of the US and EU. Because things are always more nuanced than they seem 🙂
"secrecy"
all it takes is a subpoena from any jurisdiction, and that secrecy disappears, proving it never existed.