RE: EU based server & storage

["Hywel Mallett" <hmallett@vstrading.co.uk>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Joachim Schipper [mailto:joachim@joachimschipper.nl] 
Sent: 27 January 2011 13:23
To: tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com
Subject: Re: EU based server & storage

> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:01:19PM +0000, Chris Paulson-Ellis wrote:
> > Tarsnap looks like an excellent service. Ironically I learned about
it 
> > from coverage of the recent security bug, but the open and 
> > comprehensive response to the bug inclines me towards more trust in 
> > the service than any amount of marketing from other providers.
> > 
> > However, I'm nervous about having our company data stored outside
the 
> > EU (I'm in the UK), encrypted or otherwise.
> > 
> > Are there any plans to host an instance of the service in Amazon's
EU 
> > data centre (in Eire)?
> 
> Exactly what do you hope to gain from a Tarsnap running on Amazon's EU
> infrastructure? I can imagine it being faster (for EU residents), but
Amazon is > still an American company and will still hand over your data
to the American > government, even if it's stored outside the US.
> 
> Either trust Tarsnap's encryption or use something else.

Some companies have security audits from their customers, which
specifically ask if data is stored outside the EU. It makes it easier to
tick the boxes on these audits.





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