You are probably right, this is an issue that have to be checked with the network manager of the hosting companies, eventually testing their servers with traceroute tools. The main issue if you want offshore hosting seems to be that you have to verify the servers and the datacenters are really located offshore. I think those are the main "leaking privacy" and easiest to snoop points. Some Panama or India ( https://scorpioinformatics.com/ ) hosting companies are "proudly" advertising they data centers are located in USA ... good for performance (if the US datacenter is powerful) but not good for supporting the human rights privacy of your customers or good for your philosophical way of thinking. Malaysian hosting as shinjiru.com have their data center in Kuala Lumpur, but perhaps they redirect all traffic via US before going anyway else, I don'T know how all this works. Again, traceroute testing required. This is a very tricky world. The only easy worldwide solution to the global eavesdroppers problem could be to forget http forever and go always for a strong https, ssh2 for other protocolos and use always and only gpg over ssl for email. Today CPUs, RAMs and bandwith standards allow for this, I think.
Do you know any link(s) about the global traffic maps routing(s)? macintoshzoom ----------------------- On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:28:13 +0000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does anyone knows about any offshore OpenBSD dedicated hosting : Asia, > > PanamC!, honest and privacy conscious hosting services? > > It seems that as per today it's better to go offshore for a hosting > > business to avoid and protest against endemic surveillance, USA is rated as > > one of the worst countries in the world as per the 2007 report of > > www.privacyinternational.org : > > http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-559597 > > ... > > USA is not anymore the world flagship for human liberty rights and > > civilization (positive) evolution, its a pain and a pitty. > > So the obvious choice is to go to a country where almost all traffic will > pass through the US... A lot of *national* traffic in South America is routed > through the US.
