Absolutely Bill's Mood

Futilitarian philosophaster. Ambivalent technologist. Asocial networker. Crazy cat gentleman. Primordial internet lurker. 327.18 ppm. Posts auto-delete, sooner or later.

Location: Dublin

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2026-08-15 20:21:53 UTC

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Is access to the site blocked in .nl?

2026-07-16 21:38:12 UTC

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What message does Data/SafeBase convey?

2026-05-16 07:25:04 UTC

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It turns out @npub1tds…g7de are on the Fediverse, and they found this post!
So, a moment of appreciation for America. They've always been there. A Horse With No Name is as old as I am. And they're still around, rocking (gently) down the, uh, Ventura Highway. Which doesn't exist. So let's put on Sister Golden Hair and resolve to be better correspondents. And maybe let that sweetly cornball name remind us that the evil we see today doesn't have an exclusive claim on what 'America' means.

2026-05-15 17:00:26 UTC

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The best cornball: 70s cornball.

2026-04-09 19:30:50 UTC

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No, I'm citing authority. Like the EU's lawyers: 'the Act removed any doubts as to the extraterritorial effect of the probable cause warrants issued under the SCA, by making explicit the obligation of the U.S. service providers to preserve and produce data they control regardless of where it is stored.' https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/sites/default/files/assets/the-cloud-act.pdf
Yes, if the data is encrypted and the keys aren't available to the hosting provider, then the US government gets encrypted data.

2026-04-09 18:53:14 UTC

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It doesn't make a difference as long as the data is hosted by a US company. The CLOUD Act gives the US government access to any such data regardless of where it's physically hosted. This is why AWS just spent a lot of money on an 'EU Sovereign Cloud' that's supposedly air-gapped against US control, but this hasn't been tested and there are good reasons to think it won't stand up if push comes to shove because it's still owned by Amazon.

2026-04-09 04:42:49 UTC

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I suspect that @npub19ua…53cv understands CLOUD Act jurisdiction and that this helped motivate his desire to make a change in the first place.

2026-04-08 21:01:27 UTC

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Yes, 1Password is Canadian and Bitwarden is American!