On: German minister: Stop using U.S. Web services to avoid NSA spying

[ekianjo]

It's not just the US Web services, the traffic anyway goes through the US and can be intercepted.

[sneak → ekianjo]

Germany-to-Germany traffic does not go through the US.

[ekianjo → sneak]

You might as well make a closed Internet for Germany only... The point of the Internet is to be global in the first place.

[sneak → ekianjo]

Every country already has a closed internet for their own domestic use. It's called the internet.

This makes the article relevant: "Stop using US services."

[toomuchtodo → ekianjo]

HTTPS/SSL with perfect forward secrecy