NSA and GCHQ are very good at math and very good at surveillance.
Not engaging in an arms race with well funded, very smart, government agencies is probably a good idea.
If they think you're a criminal (doesn't apply to Mozilla) they will coerce foreign governments to cooperate - see for example the illegal attacks on Mega or the domain seizures for gambling or torrent sites.
But we know, from ECHELON, that they're happy to spy on anyone, and use weird loopholes in the law to do so.
Mozilla would need to find a country that had great Internet infrastructure; good strong laws and privacy culture[1]; lack of links to US; comfortable living for staff; etc etc.
That's not easy.
[1] The US has a strong culture of privacy, which is what makes PRISM so surprising for their citizens. (Not for many other people who were saying it's happening, and have been doing so for a while.)
"[1] The US has a strong culture of privacy, which is what makes PRISM so surprising for their citizens. (Not for many other people who were saying it's happening, and have been doing so for a while.)"
When will the public accept that "good strong laws and privacy culture" is not in the least a characteristic of the US, and hasn't been for the last 30 years?
The US is probably not a democracy anymore, and hasn't been for over 20 years, since Governments are elected by corporate interests (via campaign funding)
NSA and GCHQ are but 2 on a long list of government intelligence agencies with exceptionally skilled individuals. It is madness to believe that even if you moved to a fully neutral location [if you can find one] you wouldn't be compromised for the information you store, through agents/moles/whatever or otherwise.
Not engaging in an arms race with well funded, very smart, government agencies is probably a good idea.
If they think you're a criminal (doesn't apply to Mozilla) they will coerce foreign governments to cooperate - see for example the illegal attacks on Mega or the domain seizures for gambling or torrent sites.
But we know, from ECHELON, that they're happy to spy on anyone, and use weird loopholes in the law to do so.
Mozilla would need to find a country that had great Internet infrastructure; good strong laws and privacy culture[1]; lack of links to US; comfortable living for staff; etc etc.
That's not easy.
[1] The US has a strong culture of privacy, which is what makes PRISM so surprising for their citizens. (Not for many other people who were saying it's happening, and have been doing so for a while.)