vikramsrao

Does not being based in US help? Say in europe where there more likely options to fight against government interference? Or is it a myth and all governments are concerned with encryption enough that no law can protect for small businesses?

Precisely my point. I don't / can't host in my house/office. And if i host on any remote servers, the servers themselves can be compromised or forced to. What guarantee they are not, if we look at the scale of revelations on NSA snooping so far.

Are they not compromised or more likely easily compromised considering they don't even have the resources to secure and legally fight against government interferences?

I agree dropbox would be easier of these and i can live without Facebook but definitely not be able to build a google. But more importantly is it worth it? I have a feeling from hardware to layers of software in the tech stack we use is all compromised to give access in one way or the other or they can be cracked brute force with the enormous computing power these organisations have.

If i do all of these how do i share documents or search for information on the web? What ever the alternative is going to have the same issues as Dropbox, Facebook or Google. I cannot build my own versions of these!