rbw wrote:
Assuming (granted big assumption) you have the ability to get a computer system and have funds for monthly fees in Vietnam...

They are a small percentage of the population overall but in the city the Internet cafes and coffee shops are full of people online and using laptops. There are 3 million blogs in Vietnam according to this article which just came out:

http://www.cnet.com/4520-13653_1-6796556-1.html

Yet the english speaking tech scene is so small there that I am good friends with the Kevin Miller the reporter happened to interview in that article. There really wasn't anyone else she could have interviewed. :)

Wouldn't you do in Vietnam as you mentioned you do with GPG, local portable/controllable archives and far remote subscription backups (and things like overseas proxy servers)? (I

I would, yes. But a Vietnamese would not. They are generally not aware of such things. For a number of reasons. Primarily because they do not have access to such information. There is no documentation in Vietnamese about such things.

defer to your experience...) And how is what someone in Vietnam faces functionally different from what our responsibilities to ourselves are here?

We have a means to secure our data if we want to. They don't. Again, mostly because they do not have access to such information.

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