You have the right to remain silent

paragraph symbol with shadowIf you speak German and you have about an hour of time, you should watch the video of the presentation of Uwe Vetter at the 23C3 on house searches and how to deal with the police in such situation, especially if “you have nothing to hide”.

Uwe Vetter is the author of the law blog, a well-recognized blog on German law and justice. He is lawyer and has been blogging for several years now.

The video is really entertaining and informative with a lot of nice information and background stories about a situation I hope I’ll never face. It covers the situation in Germany, but I expect that many of the advises given also apply to Austria and other countries.

Amazon S3 Storage in Europe

Logo of Amazon.com Web Services (tm)Amazon announced that they are going to offer S3 storage service inside Europe.

This for sure will provide a great boost in speed for my JungleDisk backup. I am now checking out what I have to do to get my data moved to the European data centers. I suppose I have to re-upload everything because you have to specify for each bucket if it is located in the USA or in Europe. JungleDisk at the moment does not provide support for this. I opened a topic regarding asking if they’ll support this in the near future (article1, article2).

It’s also interesting to notice that storing data in Europe is more expensive. It costs $0.18/GB/month as compared to $0.15 in the US. Bandwidth at the moment do not differ based on location. So I’d only switch if the upload/download speed is significantly higher than to/from the USA.