My Post-PRISM checklist
As an Australian, i.e. Non-US-Resident Non-US-Citizen, I've decided to take certain actions to change my online behaviours after recent events. While I have nothing of particular interest in my site usage/cloud/servers, I feel like the behaviour of the US government should not be ignored, and since US companies must to comply with US laws, they cannot be deemed safe.
WHY: Edward Snowden via The Guardian leaked numerous documents, including information about the PRISM program which suggests there is extensive surveillance and interception of foreign citizens' data without a court order.
NB: This is a work in progress. Suggestions welcome. If nothing else this is an indication of how annoying this is going to be, and how many US based services I currently rely on.
| % Complete | Company | Service | Actions & Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10% | Social Media | Backup and close facebook account. I don't really use this anyway. | |
| 10% | Social Media | Backup and close LinkedIn account. Make details available using website with some form of Authentication. | |
| 10% | Social Media | Backup and close twitter account. Self host a stream? | |
| 80% | Gmail | Redirect domains and migrate email off the service. | |
| 1% | Analytics | Search for a non-US replacement. | |
| 5% | Linode | Servers | Find another provider and migrate applications/data to new provider |
| 10% | Amazon | EC2 | Investigate data sovereignty for ap-southeast-2 region, and either move instances there, or completely off Amazon |
| 10% | Amazon | S3 | Investigate data sovereignty for ap-southeast-2 region, and either move data there, or completely off Amazon |
| 1% | Heroku | Web Apps | All the little apps need to be migrated. Probably to a VPS (see above) |
| 1% | GitHub | Repositories | Find another provider (or self host) and migrate repositories |
| 1% | Dropbox | File Storage | Probably just self-host, and do without the functionality. Move data out of Dropbox, close account. |
| 1% | iPhone | Mobile Device | Move back to Android, install ParanoidAndroid |
| 1% | MacBook | Laptop | Switch to Linux instead of MacOS X |