SSL Encryption Coming To The Pirate Bay

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday June 22, 2008 @03:20AM from the privacy-arms-race dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Pirate Bay, in response to Sweden's new wiretapping law, will start offering SSL encryption to its user base this week. Although copyright issues really have little to do with national security, The Pirate Bay knows its population is uneasy with the recent legal change. The encryption will mostly benefit Swedish users living under the current law. Since The Pirate Bay and its servers are not hosted in Sweden, the additional security offered to outside users could be comparatively minimal."

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Re:speed by Anonymous Coward · 2008-06-22 16:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

"non Anglo-Saxon west"? So you mean the Latin/Roman-blooded Western countries, viz. Italy, France, Spain and Portugal?
Anglo-Saxons were comprised of the descendants of three tribes: the Angles, the Jutes and the Saxons. The origin of the Jutes is disputed, but one hypothesis (which is accepted the by Oxford English Dictionary, among others) has is that the Jutes are identical with the Geats. The Geats come from, guess where--Sweden.
"Score:4 Informative"... I beg to differ.