Mr. Canfield's thoughts on the matter:<p>>> Of course, though the facts of the case are yet to be seen since no one in Germany is talking to us, I will definitely never host anything in Germany ever again<p>He was trusting of authorities and purposely did not use TLS (beyond STARTTLS) or encrypt his hard drives. And this is what happens. They take his hard drives immediately and seize his entire service.<p>How are we supposed to trust the authorities when they make themselves untrustable?<p>How are we, as server admins, supposed to stand down and backdoor our servers for law enforcement when this happens, when we know we can't trust them to use their powers responsibly?<p>Every time some big NSA exposé is unveiled, every time someone gets raided for no particular reason, I get to reaffirm my distrust of the Internet police, in whatever form they choose to take.<p>Policing the Internet is untenable and useless. Don't help the authorities attack your users, because oftentimes...<p>you're their last defense.