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api • today at 1:54 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Cloud equals not your computer, folks. Any cloud company can be legally subpoenaed and required to hand over any data they have, and they can also be legally gagged from telling anyone about it. Doesn't matter if they support it or not, they are a corporation subject to the laws of their jurisdiction and disobeying can expose the directors personally to civil or criminal penalties. Every corp will comply with a legal subpoena, and those are often easier to get than warrants.

For you they at least require a warrant. Usually. Unless you're crossing the border or are undocumented or something.


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dcss_gardener • today at 2:29 PM

Well, and what are you concretely suggesting here? Having my own door kicked down and my dog shot so they can get at my personal home server? Buying hardware and colocating it then getting permanently blacklisted from every datacenter when they get raided?

The problem here is the cops not where the computer sits.

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throooooo • today at 2:27 PM

Same goes for most ISPs, which are needed to connect to the Internet.