<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s really disappointing to see this comment second on a page despite the fact that yet again... &lt;i&gt;the law has no impact on Fastmail and never has&lt;/i&gt;. This is the unfortunate impact of FUD, where clueless comments will carry forward wrong views for years, even in the face of overwhelming truth around it.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Fastmail is not an end-to-end encrypted service.&lt;/i&gt; There is no requirement to backdoor it, like nearly every other non-E2E service, the Australian government can just... send a legal request. Like they always could. Or like they can do with nearly every other email service.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jacooper</author><text>The problem with Fastmail is its based in Australia.
A big no no if you care about your privacy.&lt;p&gt;They need to backdoor every session to comply with Australian rules, and every Australian is forced legally to comply, even if in an international company.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;us-australia-security-data-idUSKBN1O42SR&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;us-australia-security-data-i...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tutanota.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;australia-surveillance-bill&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tutanota.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;australia-surveillance-bill&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>exolymph</author><text>Amazing to reflect on how much goodwill Fastmail has cultivated with me just by being a reasonably priced, full-featured, competent-support-having service. I&amp;#x27;m unlikely to ever do anything with the Fastmail API, but I still upvoted mainly because I&amp;#x27;m enthusiastic about the company.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Integrating with Fastmail</title><url>https://www.fastmail.com/developer/integrating-with-fastmail/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Intermernet</author><text>This is correct. Fastmail have actually spoken about this, and their silence on any particular topic can possibly be seen as a canary. They&amp;#x27;re a great company trying to survive in a hostile environment. I really hope that the new Australian federal government will get around to winding back some of the draconian laws the previous mob brought in, but I&amp;#x27;m not holding my breath.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jacooper</author><text>The problem with Fastmail is its based in Australia.
A big no no if you care about your privacy.&lt;p&gt;They need to backdoor every session to comply with Australian rules, and every Australian is forced legally to comply, even if in an international company.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;us-australia-security-data-idUSKBN1O42SR&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;us-australia-security-data-i...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tutanota.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;australia-surveillance-bill&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tutanota.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;australia-surveillance-bill&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>exolymph</author><text>Amazing to reflect on how much goodwill Fastmail has cultivated with me just by being a reasonably priced, full-featured, competent-support-having service. I&amp;#x27;m unlikely to ever do anything with the Fastmail API, but I still upvoted mainly because I&amp;#x27;m enthusiastic about the company.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Integrating with Fastmail</title><url>https://www.fastmail.com/developer/integrating-with-fastmail/</url></story>