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Cases like this reinforce my opinion, that there is an increasing demand to educate consumers how to prevent getting data leaked to government institutions like intelligence services. Especially the consequences of picking the wrong service provider.

Luckily I am now in a position where I am fully responsible and aware of the routes my data takes. Yet we as a B2B ISP constantly get requests by intelligence services to provide information regarding our customers. Strangely they always assume that's totally okay to -just- ask for the data, instead of going the formal way. If we demand the judicial permissions they always rant about emergencies and so on. We can't help but follow the law, and the law disallows us to keep specific data for more than 60 days. I am really curious about how many ISPs voluntarily provide their customer data without asking for judicial permission beforehand.

Such conversations are coming around 2 or 3 times a week.

Meh, it was an "example given". How much do you want? Another famous one would be MH17 and Fedotov. Also you should read the definition of agenda, you clearly misused it. ("the things that must be done"[1]). The word you were looking for was motive.

That Reuters isn't a reliable source of information isn't a matter of motive or "agenda", it is common sense within educated circles.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda

Reuters is pretty known for propaganda and deliberate disinformation of the public.

e.g. http://blogs.roosevelt.edu/hsilverman/files/2011/11/Reuters-...

I am not even 25 and joined the club already. People tend to forget the concept of circulation.

aye aye captain obvious!

Slashdot.org is a bit quieter, but better moderated and in general a higher level of knowledge.

Try to say something about China that wasn't, isn't or won't be true for every other country. General Society and it's concept underlies circulation. It's just not well documented in some parts, but we're on relativising this fact and maybe in 100 Years there will be a generation willing to learn and shift this concept. Not change.

Yeah, such a hack will become either a mess and declared invalid or something political motivated. The event horizon of political motivation can be calculated. Therefore planned ahead.

There is no thing such as an unexpected outcome by e-voting for those in power.

Is there any advantage over an excel sheet?

Cardiology tells you it doesn't.

Do you really want to go down that road? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg

You've clearly never lifted weights seriously. From a medicinal point of view different types of heart activities don't even exist.

I had to google if this could still be called journalism. My assumption was right Mr. Kirkpatrick not a journalist nor a writer[0].

There isn't a single fact besides propaganda in this article. To call the culture of r-selection "fearless" is over simplifying and lacks foundation. Everything else is well known and touched very superficial and often concluded wrong by the author. No facts, no statistics, nothing.

Sit down and repeat Mr. Kirkpatrick. This is not journalism.

tl;dr: U-S-A! > all

[0]https://www.linkedin.com/pub/t-j-kirkpatrick/17/3b5/756

> without the weird investment ecosystem that does exist in the bay area, I don't think many of them would exist

Probably the wisest words spoken regarding the startup business on HN for months. If you are not able to launch a company without external money, there are two possible reasons behind that. Either you aren't ready to build a company, or your idea is not worth your efforts and there was never an expectable RoI to begin with.

Their official Download Mirror is sourceforge.

But independently from your selected location linode is routing through the US. That's a bummer for way too many possible customers with sensitive data.

There's literally tabula rasa for everyone blocking scripts...

Personally I don't use Postfix, I am going with Zimbra. Postfix was just an example. As well as DANE would require exactly 4 commands to be enabled.

For myself I am going with a major commercial antispam solution, which is hosted in two of our datacenters. Since I am working with the developers and admins on regular basis there's no reason not to trust them.

I don't see the problem to rent a small server and host open xchange, zimbra or something similiar yourself? Even postfix isn't that hard to configure and will likely run forever.

The same goes for the author. I don't get how gmail is even considered as a mail provider for more than a spam oder mandatory account. The list of better and serious mail providers is tremendous.

For my family and me, I am hosting a small exchange server, with a synchronous replica in a datacenter, at home. It's safe, has nearly unlimited disk space and I know where my backups are.

I am quite satisfied with ixquick[0]. It forwards google results over a Proxy, utilizing TLS and it relinquishes cookies. Pretty neat if you ask me.

[0] https://www.ixquick.de/eng/?

> because any _viable_ company that wants to provide a service that a consumer other than Stallman himself will use will "infringe" on those two idiotic requirements.

I work for a data center operator and ISP and our customer database is air gapped. We're in the business for 18 years now.