Re: Crypto AG is/was in Switzerland
That was, however, the last time anyone in Switzerland trusted anything the US has had its fingers in - that happens to be one of the issues with ProtonMail (it had MIT involvement).
The irony is that with all the marketing from the US to make Switzerland look bad so that everyone forgot about what actually caused the whole world's economy to be screwed up (being the US, more specifically Wall Street) it hardened the attitude of the Swiss against the US.
The result is that the Swiss are now very rigorously and precisely applying the law, and what a ponderous, mighty and certainly unwieldy and slow mechanism that can be.
Swiss laws are generally written so well that you can crank the handle very quickly in case of emergencies (the benefit of a small country and having 3 languages to write law in, none of which is English) which is why they never needed any due process backdoors to speed things up. Not that that would have made it past the public vote which is part & parcel of a true direct democracy, but they're quite sensible until you piss them off - at which point you'll find just how maddeningly complex they can make it.
I think Mr Trump is not doing well in that context.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
