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posted by janrinok on Friday March 21 2014, @10:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-all-said-this-would-happen dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

"Yahoo! has moved its data controlling business from London to Dublin in a bid to avoid harsh UK security powers that it says has harmed its users, and its business. I left Yahoo! for neomailbox once it was clear that the lack of security of my Yahoo! email continued under Meyers' leadership. The fact their web mail dropped dramatically in quality didn't help either (emails to eff.org were bounced for months (no MX record), but only when sent from my Yahoo! webmail accounts). It's nice to see they are actually doing something to address their lack of security, although it will be a while before I'd go back to Yahoo!. The Guardian article covering this story is here.

It's unfortunate Yahoo! didn't take advantage of Iceland's IMMI initiative and move to Iceland, however it's understandable from a logistical perspective. It's somewhat of a chicken and egg thing, but until Iceland works on the logistical problems businesses face with moving their data operations to Iceland, the attractiveness of Birgitta Jansdottir's IMMI initiative may not be enough to overcome the logistical hardships businesses would have.

Freedom House publishes reports on its concept of freedom on the internet here, although I question some of their metrics."

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by bob_super on Friday March 21 2014, @10:07PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday March 21 2014, @10:07PM (#19496)

    Isn't it convenient, how their move to avoid prying government eyes also allows them to avoid pesky government taxation?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @10:36PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @10:36PM (#19512)

      Sure, good for them.
      Starve the beast.

      Of course you are naive if you don't believe that these "state security" powers, anti "money laundering" controls, etc are not going to be (ab)used to prevent the free flow of capital to business and freedom friendly states.
      Its a money grab by corrupt and bankrupt nations.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @01:28PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @01:28PM (#19683)

        Maybe, but that still means it's a good move by yahoo. This makes it harder for the governments.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @01:30PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @01:30PM (#19684)

      Not avoid government taxation, avoid England's taxation in exchange for Ireland's taxation. What's the problem in that?

  • (Score: 1) by moylan on Friday March 21 2014, @10:43PM

    by moylan (3063) on Friday March 21 2014, @10:43PM (#19513)

    considering most of the undersea cables that serve ireland end up in usa or uk can't they just tap the lines there and pretend to to be outraged? aren't they breaking a lot of encryption?
    http://www.submarinecablemap.com/#/ [submarinecablemap.com]

    not like that's not what they did before.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capenhurst#Capenhurs t_tower [wikipedia.org]

    • (Score: 1) by blackest_k on Friday March 21 2014, @11:16PM

      by blackest_k (2045) on Friday March 21 2014, @11:16PM (#19522)

      no doubt they can, but it's going to be a harder task than just taking everything unencrypted just because they can. The price of complete surveillance just went up a lot.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @01:25PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @01:25PM (#19682)

      Just because there are still ways data can be stolen by governments doesn't mean folks should just give up. Making it as expensive as possible for governments to steal data is all any of us can really do.

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by crutchy on Friday March 21 2014, @11:55PM

    by crutchy (179) on Friday March 21 2014, @11:55PM (#19532) Homepage Journal

    It's unfortunate Yahoo! didn't take advantage of Iceland's IMMI initiative and move to Iceland, however it's understandable from a logistical perspective.

    maybe that's what the google barges are for... tax avoidance

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Reziac on Saturday March 22 2014, @02:37AM

    by Reziac (2489) on Saturday March 22 2014, @02:37AM (#19572) Homepage

    --- to my certain knowledge and experience. This came to my attention back in 1998, while I was on a team that lost our developer for six months, because mail to and from his Yahoo account was just disappearing into the aether. No bounce, no error message, no nothing. None of us realised what had happened til we tripped over one another on some other site and compared notes.

    Someone over on that Other Site once told me he'd queried Yahoo's mail servers, and found that about half of them were misconfigured.

    The problem persists to this day -- and a few unfortunate folks' Yahoo mail randomly vanishes, sometimes for months at a time.

    --
    And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.