{"id":15478,"date":"2013-10-29T18:15:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T01:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=15478"},"modified":"2013-10-29T18:15:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T01:15:47","slug":"where-to-go-for-offshore-email-and-vpns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/29\/where-to-go-for-offshore-email-and-vpns\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to go for OFFSHORE email and VPNs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been using the U.S.-based company Cotse.net<\/a> for email and proxy services for many years, ever since I learned about it from S. Cotse gives good service at a good price. I’ve been a happy customer. There’s nothing at all wrong with Cotse.<\/p>\n

Except that it’s based in this increasingly thuggish surveillance state.<\/p>\n

Which has already driven more than one privacy-protecting company to shut its doors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m seeking a back-up service. I’ll keep Cotse, but I want to be using a Plan B if the feds drive them out of business, too. So I’ve been reading articles like this one<\/a>. But online reviews are no substitute for personal knowledge.<\/p>\n

What can you tell me — from personal experience and\/or knowledge of a company’s location, management, and services — about other reliable services?<\/p>\n

Here are the requirements<\/b><\/p>\n

* MUST BE BASED OUTSIDE THE U.S. — MUST!
\n* Will preferably be based in a jurisdiction where its owners feel no need to kowtow to every illegal demand of some UberGovernment.
\n* Provides services including email and VPN
\n* Has reasonable rates
\n* And shows no sign whatsoever of just being some phony front for the surveillance state.<\/p>\n

Anybody …?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been using the U.S.-based company Cotse.net for email and proxy services for many years, ever since I learned about it from S. Cotse gives good service at a good price. I’ve been a happy customer. There’s nothing at all wrong with Cotse. Except that it’s based in this increasingly thuggish surveillance state. Which has already driven more than one privacy-protecting company to shut its doors. I’m seeking a back-up service. I’ll keep Cotse, but I want to be using a Plan B if the feds drive them out of business, too. So I’ve been reading articles like this one.…<\/p>\n

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