Swiss Government Backs Privacy Oriented ISP

judgecorp writes "The Swiss government owned telco Swisscom is pitching a "Swiss Cloud" operator which promises to keep customers' credentials private in the wake of the NSA spying scandal. Switzerland has strict privacy laws, with which the Swisscom cloud complies, and the operator now wants to offer that more widely."

doesn't matter

[Moblaster]

It's clear this is merely some darknet to protect the black market for Swiss chocolate smuggling. But at last my secret Toblerone stash will be untraceable. So I got that going for me.

Horrible pun ahead.

[Anonymous Coward]

Swisscom? I hear their privacy is...full of holes.

Re:Speed of...light.

[fred911]

What is slower latency?

    Duplicate redundancy.

Re:the Swiss don't need you

[cold fjord]

The value of having a neutral territory far outweighs the value of pursuing a particular agenda.

The value of capturing a series of heavily defended localities adjacent to and in a mountain range tends to be outweighed by the cost of doing so. Rubble and ruin is a poor exchange for blood and treasure.

And then you realize that

[spacefight]

- the swiss had their fair share of privacy desasters - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_files_scandal [wikipedia.org]
- the swiss also have their intelligence services
- the swiss also have lawful interception
- you still need to encrypt everything as your data in transit to Switzerland might be intercepted elsewhere

Go dark. Now.

Regards from Switzerland