Don't be too sure about Switzerland... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/nsa_backdoors_i.html
Which talks about a story that was in the German papers in the late 90's.. For half a century, Crypto AG, a Swiss company located in Zug, has sold to more than 100 countries the encryption machines their officials rely upon to exchange their most sensitive economic, diplomatic and military messages. Crypto AG was founded in 1952 by the legendary (Russian born) Swedish cryptographer Boris Hagelin. During World War II, Hagelin sold 140,000 of his machine to the US Army. "In the meantime, the Crypto AG has built up long standing cooperative relations with customers in 130 countries," states a prospectus of the company. The home page of the company Web site says, "Crypto AG is the preferred top-security partner for civilian and military authorities worldwide. Security is our business and will always remain our business." And for all those years, US eavesdroppers could read these messages without the least difficulty. A decade after the end of WWII, the NSA, also known as No Such Agency, had rigged the Crypto AG machines in various ways according to the targeted countries. It is probably no exaggeration to state that this 20th century version of the "Trojan horse" is quite likely the greatest sting in modern history. On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Adrian Zaugg <a...@ente.limmat.ch> wrote: > > > On 10/11/13 8:20 PM, Walter Parker wrote: > > Unless, of course, you are willing to contribute time and money to > > fixing this issue. Otherwise this just an armchair general telling other > > people how to run the project. > I don't think it is a problem to find a sponsered hosting here in > Switzerland for example. Our law protects citizens from govermental > despotism quite well. National security is not an issue here. > > But this is not the question. The question is wether software projects > hosted in the US are still trustworthy because of the legal situation > there. If the pfsense community has the opinion, that it is too risky, > then it is time to start acting. Once this point is reached, me and > others would certainly try to contribute. Most of the people here are > network specialists and do have their connections to hosting > possibilities, I think. > > Regards, Adrian. > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > List@lists.pfsense.org > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > -- The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
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