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Nope, everyone happily shovels all of their data, as well as all of the data their customers provide them, into AWS, which is very cosy with the US military.

You can be reasonably certain that anything in AWS is available to US military intelligence without judicial oversight.




Every American service and product needs to be treated as compromised, it really comes down to that.

Individual companies now need to earn back basic trust.

This doesn't mean you have to completely abandon your favourite service, just have to modify the way you utilize it.

For example, if you absolutely have to use Google Drive, be sure to encrypt your files with appropriate strength first and assume they are actively trying to decrypt and build a file on you.


>American

Why single out America, Snowden's leaks showed the entire Anglo-sphere is compromised(Five Eyes). Is there any reason to think this isn't the case in any NATO/OECD/etc. country?




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