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Oh yea, transparency by all hosts is needed. Too many shell companies lately with a few CC resellers..
@XFS_Duke I was only asking for more candor on the subject. It's not for me to judge anyone or their reasons for doing what they do.
re: transparency, there are probably limits depending on context, but yeah, in general I agree. I'm not trying to get all infowars.com here. All I'm saying is for those who felt the 'need' to hide government complicity to begin with, why would anyone ever want to trust you? i.e. the direct question to you is, why would you have ever had to hide that from people to begin with? I thought y'all liked open source! Why not 'simply' be open about it?
I feel that I am not paranoid or 'out of line' or whatever to be asking this, and that these are calm, reasonable questions to which answers are due.
Yea, no doubt. We all would rather for companies to be legit and really be transparent and trustworthy. We see it all too much on here, summer hosts or scam/shell companies come up and screw people over. I hate it. In fact, it is one of the reasons I am doing this. Other than the fact that I love this industry, I believe that providing great services for a decent price is worth it for me.
This is how the system works, if you do not want to be exposed to snooping risks, keep your data encrypted and at home, if you must put it online then you have no issues with the snooping risks. If you need to transmit it some other place, you can always transfer encrypted containers over encrypted direct or Tor connections if the spooks should not be able to prove you were in contact with someone.
However, all this is useless when the law has been corrupted, either at micro level by recruiting judges, prosecutors and cops and/or at macro level by making laws which break the constitutional rights and even basic civil and human rights. You can only hope you remain below the radar and nobody knows you are involved in supporting human rights or they consider you too irrelevant to bother, at least for now, when there are bigger "terrorists"/"traitors" or "child molesters" to fry.
haha, this thread is already hilarious
here ya go Maou
...anyway, other than taking leaps of faith, I agree with what everyone is saying re: test beds and non-substantial content. I don't think there is any other way to do it, at least not in the 'LEB' sense.
Even with the most expensive and 'reputable' providers, there is no automatic fail-safe guarantee that 'your data' will be safe, is there? The ongoing leaks and exploits at the corporate level would seem to prove otherwise/inexorable. Wasn't there a big one with Sony the other day?
& do people no longer 'trust' Sony because of it? Of course not, they'll probably forget about it in a week, if they were ever aware of it to begin with.
EDIT, or maybe not:
Sooner or later people will realize that whatever is not under their direct control at home encrypted and offline while not needed, is public knowledge and act like that.
I do not give my data where not absolutely needed and when I do, only data that is already out there and cannot be esily connected with me unless a warrant issued (not that the spooks ever cared about "technicalities", but they will have to work a bit more).
Bottom of line, stay anonymous or at least well below the radar, have secondary and tertiary, etc lives online, you should be better than 99% of the people which do not know what is going on and do not care even if they would know.
Sure - but when it comes down to it, we all have confidential, personally-identifiable data, and we need a place to back it up. It's a lot easier to do so online in another state/country/continent than it is to store it securely offline in those places!
Well, if you trust your encryption scheme well enough, that works. SD cards and external drives also work, they can be stored some other place, still encrypted, of course.