Cada dia estem emmagatzemant més i més dades a casa d’altra gent, per exemple, a can Google s’hi guarden les nostres converses, els nostres missatges, les nostres llibretes, etc. Els estats, en especial l’americà per via de la seva agència NSA, estan essent atrets per aquestes dades, un caramel per qui vol controlar la societat. En aquest estat de confusió sobre la privadesa de les nostres dades, una empresa està mostrant un perfil ètic molt alt. rsync.net lloga espai de disc dur accessible mitjançant protocols lliures i fa el possible per garantir la seguretat de les dades malgrat els abusos de les agències estatals. Jo ja he llogat dos Giga-octets per replicar-hi les dades del servidor que allotja quintanasegui.com i altres llocs.

Afortunadament, els principis ètics són una base per a construir un negoci.

From: support |a can| rsync |punt| net
To: pere |a can| quintanasegui |punt| com
Date: May 22, 2006 7:36 PM
Subject: rsync.net : new features, more space, and the NSA (please read)

Hi,

Please read this entire email, as it contains details of new features and
policies that you should know about.

Quota Command
-------------

First, we have added a 'quota' command that you can run over ssh to see
your current disk usage.  Simply run:

ssh 1005@usw-s001.rsync.net quota

Indexed Pricing
---------------

In a few days, you will note that your filesystem will increase by 10%.

We have decided to periodically increase the disk space in your account,
and also to lower our prices for additional storage (and for new
customers) by that same percentage once every six months.

You don't need to do anything, and there is no increase in cost.  You will
simply get more space every six months, for free ... forever.

You can read details of this policy here:

http://www.rsync.net/products/indexed.html

NSA / Warrant Response
----------------------

We are not happy with the current climate in the US that has service
providers compromising the security and privacy of their customers, and
the possibility that a law enforcement agency can serve a "National
Security Letter" (a secret warrant) to compell our cooperation without the
knowledge of our customers.

First, we are taking a strong stand against these practices in our
philosophy:

http://www.rsync.net/philosophy.html

But more specifically, we are giving our customers a tool that will allow
them to assess for themselves the relations of rsync.net to government
agencies:

http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

The bottom line is, we do not deal with anyone unless they serve us with
an order from a US court having jurisdiction.  Further, our customers will
be made aware of all such orders and warrants.  Finally, the warrant
canary will alert you to a "National Security Letter" (a secret warrant).

I believe we are the first ISP to adopt this strategy to deal with secret
warrants and "National Security Letters".

Future Geographic Expansion and Features
----------------------------------------

We are opening new sites in Switzerland, Japan and the UAE (Dubai), to
supplant our two US locations, San Diego and Denver.

Customers will be able to mix and match their primary and secondary
locations and we will offer support for both the technical aspects of
geographical redundancy, and the political aspects of national redundancy.

This will allow customers around the world to create security based on
geographical _and_ national/political redundancy for their data.

Also, in addition to supporting rsync, Unison, the SSH suite, WebDAV and
ftp, we are now adding support for subversion access.

Please Help
-----------

There are a few things you can do to help us.

First, please recommend us to your employer, your clients, and your peers.

Second, please add http://www.rsync.net to your del.icio.us bookmarks.
You wouldn't believe what a response we get from this ...

Third, if you have a blog or similar forum for posting items like this,
please do make an entry for rsync.net and your experiences here.

Finally, please digg this article that one of our customers was kind
enough to submit:

http://digg.com/technology/ISP_Takes_a_Stand_Against_NSA_Spying_and_Secret_Warrants

We hope that you find these new features and policies helpful.  We truly
appreciate your business and hope to serve you for years to come.

--john

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