The CLOUD Act – can Americans be trusted in Europe?

This week I've attended an event and one of the other attendees has voiced an interesting thought, which deserves a brief footnote here, for future reference. Since March 2018 the US Government had passed the so called Cloud Act, which basically "allows federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to...

Plan ‘W’ from outer space

There's been a bit of fuss in the press around the Outernet project (https://www.outernet.is/).  Long story short, they are promising free Internet, including wi-fi, to the world from low-earth orbit satellites, using broadcast model.  There is little to none no technical details, but there's a form to accept donations. 🙂 Now, my feeling is that...