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Canadian web host offers NSA-free services. "No government back-doors"

3 pointsby dtournemilleover 11 years ago

2 comments

gpczover 11 years ago
It seems that they mainly offer DNS and email hosting. A non-US DNS provider has benefits for controversial sites where you fear the US government will intimidate US-based providers into shutting the site down, but I don't understand how a DNS provider can be "NSA-free" for what is primarily a publicly-accessible service. Likewise with email, the Internet uses plaintext SMTP for email transactions, so it seems that most of your protection would come from using something like PGP, not from your ISP.
themanthatfellover 11 years ago
That's impossible. Thanks for trying though.