Be very careful about these 'anonymous' providers, you will find when carefully reading through their terms of service and the way they conduct business that most of them are full of shit when a government starts threatening them. I've found most of them even cover their own asses in the terms of service saying the usual garbage of "we will not be held liable" etc. etc.
Well of course they do. The last person I would trust would be someone who claims they are going to take a bullet for me. They are either hopelessly neive or bald-faced liars.
It's an aggravating corundrum that one gets the best info on who is trustworthy only after they've been shut down. Parenthetically, I gained a lot more confidence in Mt. Gox after they were given a fair amount of grief by the US authorities.
despite their marketing and main site boasting about how they'll keep everything you upload or post anonymous. I'd like to add as well that if they don't use Bitcoin in their payment options they're definitely full of shit because using the conventional currencies will always leave a trace
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Accepting Bitcoin is one of the things that gives mega.co.nz some credibility in my mind.
After Snowden's leaks shedding light on how closely the 'five eyes' are cooperating I do not like that they are based in New Zealand...but it's preferable to the US at least. I do hope that they employ infrastructure commissioned in disparate jurisdictions, and that they and engineered the nerve center to be able to migrate seamlessly if the need arises.
If we want the same type of anonymity Bitcoin has peer to peer technology really does seem to be the way to go, but how would you accomplish such a thing with communications and hosting?
The only solution I will truly trust is one where it is technically impossible for the provider to do one thing or another, and who provides a lot of transparency and system level design whereby I can validate certain things. Here again, Mega.co.nz seems to have a pretty solid framework for making that theoretically possible.
Lavabit (or perhaps Zimmerman) mentioned the difficulty of securing mail (presumably meta-data) under the current (and dated) protocols such as POP and IMAP. I assume that they are talking about routing. It may be possible to devise a system based on one-time use addresses which are similar in some ways to Bitcoin addresses, and combined with a series of proxies operated on a P2P basis, it could become pretty challenging to perform meaningful analytics even with a huge advantage in terms of network taps which the NSA and it's minions have.
One way or another, I think it is finally safe to assume that it makes no logical sense to trust 'the powers that be' to have any restraint at all in terms of their means and methods of imposing control on the masses. Nor is it wise believe anything they might say since it is abundantly clear that they will flat-out lie about any operations or plans. Thus if the masses desire or need a solution, it is only logical to work on one which is theoretically sound against any and all attacks. This stands for both a currency solution and a communications solution.
