Silent Circle raises $30M, moves to Switzerland

I wonder how much longer Switzerland can cash in on their national brand for security and privacy. Their largest banks can't even keep their customers' accounts safe from foreign tax investigators. Why would I trust the integrity of my data there?

I wonder how much you can trust the software if its developer must choose a favorable jurisdiction? To my knowledge, developers of Git, PGP, GPG, Bittorrent, Tor, Bitcoin and Bitmessage live where they want because the software is designed to have no centralized links to anyone's private data. So there is no big company to go after.

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Interesting choice. This week another &quot;secure&quot; email service <a href="https://protonmail.ch/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;protonmail.ch&#x2F;</a> launched and their sales pitch is all about Swiss privacy protection laws. Might be a new trend.

There is a good write up here about Swiss privacy laws and how they have their own, which do not comply with the EU, etc.<p><a href="https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/6803/5-best-vpns-for-switzerland/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bestvpn.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;6803&#x2F;5-best-vpns-for-switzerlan...</a><p>Not an promotional link, it just happens to be a decent article with linked source material.

There are lots of good reasons for moving your headquarters from the Caribbean to Switzerland, but &quot;strong privacy laws&quot; and &quot;legendary neutrality&quot; are not among them.

Their &quot;global headquarters&quot; probably is a post box.