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Silent Circle "isn't a US company", but has their US HQ in Washington DC.

They have software engineers in "Silicon Valley".

What makes you think they're "outside the US' legal jurisdiction"?




Apologies, I wasn't clear enough. What I'm trying to refer to is the legal jurisdiction of the Global HQ and what effect that has (if any) on receiving court orders like the one described in this discussion. Having wholly-owned subsidiaries in the territories in which you operate is a requirement and puts part of the company within that jurisdiction but I'm curious to know if having the parent company elsewhere offers some form of insulation (or not).

Perhaps this is a question I should direct at the other company but I wondered if it was something that the CryptoSeal folks had considered.




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