This is actually old news, but what is interesting is that recently Finlands gov. approved plans to layout new cable to the sea, so that internet traffic can be routed from Finland to Germany, bypassing Sweden all together...
Picture from the article shows how the connection towards Europe/US goes trough Germany and the connections towards Asia will be directed trough nothern part of Finland, trough Norway - instead of Sweden:
* Random people can find out your telephone number from your car number plate. I met a Finnish girl who got called on her mobile phones while driving... being asked out on a date by the guy driving behind her (not me LoL). They also can find your home address ( spooky )
* Driving fines are proportional to your income... earn more and your speeding fine is more
That has always been pretty odd to me. Our laws seem to have a decent focus on privacy, but in this case there was a compromise between transparency (perhaps our political history can explain why income is public information).
* Random people can find out your telephone number from your car number plate. I met a Finnish girl who got called on her mobile phones while driving... being asked out on a date by the guy driving behind her (not me LoL). They also can find your home address
Yes, but you can prevent that from happening by notifying Trafi.
* Driving fines are proportional to your income... earn more and your speeding fine is more
Not sure why you mention this. Proportional fines make sense if the point of fines is deterrence.
The underwater SEA-ME-WE 4 cable between Europe and India has a capacity of 1.28 Tbits/s. I am unsure about the current capacity. I think it would be possible to encrypt at those line rates, given enough parallelism.
http://yle.fi/uutiset/suomi_haluaa_oman_tietoliikennereitin_...
Picture from the article shows how the connection towards Europe/US goes trough Germany and the connections towards Asia will be directed trough nothern part of Finland, trough Norway - instead of Sweden:
http://yle.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/article6559090.ece/ALTERNATES/...