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Foreign Data Unsafe From US Patriot Act, Says American Law Firm
natecochrane writes "A prestigious law firm warns non-U.S. businesses their data is unsafe from costly and invasive raids by American law enforcement even if they host their data in their own countries. The wide interpretation of the USA Patriot Act ensures U.S. cops can legally demand data from almost anyone, anywhere for any reason and countries and their citizens are largely powerless to resist. The advice has resonance with the arrest this week of Kim 'Dotcom' on alleged copyright violations in the U.S."
It has little to do with just the nukes. In fact the nukes would be over kill. It starts with geography (there are two nations that have ports on the North Atlantic and in the Pacific and only one of the them has the population and industrial base to take advantage of it) and continues with the economy (there is not a company on earth that would not sell it's corporate soul to gain a solid foothold in the USA - even given the dismal economic climate there's still no place better to be selling stuff). If the military get involved it probably won't be nukes - it'll be the navy enforcing an embargo. There is very little on the seas big enough to be called a ship that escape the eyes of the US Navy when they decide to shut down shipping and there's no navy in the world capable of tangling with the US Navy and coming out on top (no matter what Iran might think). Nukes - it doesn't ever get to nukes. Under a naval embarago the nation's economy withers and dies and the people start starving.
It's an unfortunate reality of this world that we live in. The US is ascendent - as the UK was a century ago and countless other nations before. And because of that all other nations are forced to pay homage to the king of the nations, lest they be utterly devestated.