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With all the US laws about seizing data and the warnings from industry, what did they expect?

The government of Canada cannot legally use US cloud services either without violating their privacy laws. It is only prudent.

Industry warned them and they went ahead and enacted those laws. Now they whine about the predictable results?



Why would they not want free backups at the NSA? Pay nothing, file a FOIA request for a restore, then wait 50 years.

Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies. - Linus Torvalds


Since when have FOIA requests to the NSA ever produced anything interesting within 50 years?


Here you go: http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2012/files/H03-Cryptosyst...


I am well aware of that, having created a transcript ( http://www.gwern.net/docs/1955-nash ) of it. A cryptosystem that the NSA rejected because it was too easily broken is obviously not in the same category of information as what I was responding to.




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