Deutsche Telekom Moves Email Traffic In-Country In Wake of PRISM

Posted by timothy on Friday August 9, 2013 @11:17AM from the anonymity-is-for-crazy-paranoid-people dept.

kdryer39 writes "Germany's leading telecom provider announced on Friday that it will only use German servers to handle any email traffic over its systems, citing privacy concerns arising from the recent PRISM leak and its 'public outrage over U.S. spy programs accessing citizens' private messages.' In a related move, DT has also announced that they will be providing email services over SSL to further secure their customers' communications. Sandro Gaycken, a professor of cyber security at Berlin's Free University, said 'This will make a big difference...Of course the NSA could still break in if they wanted to, but the mass encryption of emails would make it harder and more expensive for them to do so.'"

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This makes sense by Anonymous Coward · 2013-08-09 11:21 · Score: 5, Insightful

Germany is one of the hotspots for Boundless Informant. It appears that the US spies on Germany as much as it does on China.
Re:so.... by chilvence · 2013-08-09 11:44 · Score: 5, Insightful

I find it a beautiful irony that the country that invented the gestapo and the stasi finds the nsa a little bit too much :)
Re:so.... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-08-09 12:36 · Score: 5, Insightful

Dear Everyone Else
We like Canada more than America too
Sincerely
Americans