Network protections are, as you pointed out, something they cannot control. At the legal policy level, they are somewhat less cooperative as an Austrialian company with US server assets.
"> I feel safe in speculating that if you will not pony up the emails to a US judge, the people who maintain the server farm here in the US will.
They can't - they have no access to the emails, because they can't login to the machines and they can't access the encryption keys for the data. All maintenance of the OS/software is done from Australia.
We've had a number of US-based law enforcement bodies over the year try to get hold of our data without going via the appropriate Australian bodies, and it doesn't work out for them. In the end, they have always ended up submitting a request for cooperation via the Australian Federal Police, as they are required to do, and we respond to that request in line with Australian law."
2009 Slashdot.org Interview with Howard Jeremy, Founder of Fastmail
"> I feel safe in speculating that if you will not pony up the emails to a US judge, the people who maintain the server farm here in the US will.
They can't - they have no access to the emails, because they can't login to the machines and they can't access the encryption keys for the data. All maintenance of the OS/software is done from Australia.
We've had a number of US-based law enforcement bodies over the year try to get hold of our data without going via the appropriate Australian bodies, and it doesn't work out for them. In the end, they have always ended up submitting a request for cooperation via the Australian Federal Police, as they are required to do, and we respond to that request in line with Australian law."
2009 Slashdot.org Interview with Howard Jeremy, Founder of Fastmail
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