'Today' considers data retention and IMP

[Igor Mozolevsky]

2009/1/10 Florian Weimer:
> * Igor Mozolevsky:
>
>> 2009/1/10 Florian Weimer:
>>
>>> At least the TCP connection for the sign-in is likely terminated
>>> locally.
>>
>> Why would you assume that?
>
> Even Google can't change the speed of light.  There's no way that a
> signal can cross the Atlantic in five milliseconds.
>
> I wrote "likely" because I didn't test from the UK specifically.

AFAIK, DNS is not context-aware, so no matter where you type
'mail.google.com' you will always get a bunch of addresses from the
same address pool. My ping times are ~38ms to them, and their address
space shows up straight after the LINX hop. When you type your
credentials in, Google has no idea where your country of residence is
(I could live in the UK and be using Google in the States, for
example). If anything they might be using a CDN, but that's pure
caching, not actually 'hosting and processing' of data.

> (Please note that I'm not really that obsessed with Google.  I'm
> interested in how you can deliberately opt out of jurisdiction, and
> what can be done against it.  Google is just an example.)

Use US (or similar)-terminated VPN service? There's plenty of those
being offered!

--
Igor :-)