It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
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Citing from Bert Hubert's article:
Acknowledging painful changes is not easy. In the 1930s, the Netherlands realized the world was becoming pretty dangerous, and therefore planned to buy weapons and ammunition from Germany (!). However, the ordered weaponry was not delivered on time, or at least not in the way you’d want.
I love his clarity (and humor) combined with an incredible will to make things better - and fierce optimism that we can, really.
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Citing from Bert Hubert's article:
Acknowledging painful changes is not easy. In the 1930s, the Netherlands realized the world was becoming pretty dangerous, and therefore planned to buy weapons and ammunition from Germany (!). However, the ordered weaponry was not delivered on time, or at least not in the way you’d want.
I love his clarity (and humor) combined with an incredible will to make things better - and fierce optimism that we can, really.
And as for data safety and privacy, another 1930s Dutch story. Dutch people are great at data and statistics, and very meticulous.
As a result, we have tons of data on people, including data on where someone's ancestors are from and what religion they have. The results of that, combined with a fascist regime were not pretty.
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No longer?
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And as for data safety and privacy, another 1930s Dutch story. Dutch people are great at data and statistics, and very meticulous.
As a result, we have tons of data on people, including data on where someone's ancestors are from and what religion they have. The results of that, combined with a fascist regime were not pretty.
And this time you can't just go to the archives and burn it down like they did in 1940.
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It never was.
The US have a history of using their intelligence agencies to help US companies win bids abroad, we may have been militarily allied, but in the business world we have been enemies for a long time
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And this time you can't just go to the archives and burn it down like they did in 1940.
Well, you can, and in someway it is easier...
I mean, machines need maintenance, what if someone made a misstake and uploaded a script that would make subtle changes to the database over time?
Changing a 2 to a 3 or an A to a K and so on slowly over time, you don't have to burn everything, but make it too unreliable to use...
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Well, you can, and in someway it is easier...
I mean, machines need maintenance, what if someone made a misstake and uploaded a script that would make subtle changes to the database over time?
Changing a 2 to a 3 or an A to a K and so on slowly over time, you don't have to burn everything, but make it too unreliable to use...
There's backups of backups of everything now. I guess if the people in charge want to do it, they could security delete everything, but a random guy won't be able to, which is what happened in 1940.
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And as for data safety and privacy, another 1930s Dutch story. Dutch people are great at data and statistics, and very meticulous.
As a result, we have tons of data on people, including data on where someone's ancestors are from and what religion they have. The results of that, combined with a fascist regime were not pretty.
People just don't realize how much power of abuse all this data provides in evil hands. Take smart phone location data. Some time ago, there was an uproar when the move-fast-break-laws company Uber published an analysis of how many of their clients in New York City had probably a one-night stand - based on their location data. A breach of privacy, sure.
But think about this: Google is collecting all this location data all the time, and storing it permanently. Finding out who is probably having an affair while their spouse is away on a business trip is essentially a database query for them.
Or another thing: It is well known that the animal most dangerous to single humans is other humans hunting them. The unspeakable hunt on Europes Jews is an example from hell but depressingly, there are many more cases in human history, like the witch hunts or the catholic inquisition.
Now, if things got too hot, people had the last resort to flee and simply disappear, going to a safe place where nobody knows them. That was the thing that saved Salman Rushdi when he had to flee Iran.
But in an ultra-connected world without privacy, this is not possible any more. That's because companies like Facebook, Twitter/X and Google have your social graph including your family. And even if you would never would give these companies your address in Rushdie's situation, a family member who has your address on the phone would happily upload his or her whole address book to Facebook or Google.
That's not a theoretical consideration - being ratted out by social media was the way many people in Syrias civil war (fuelled by Russia) died.
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I've moved all my services into Europe. Earlier on I didn't care much about where they where, but given recent actions and attitudes of the sitting government of the US of Assholes I've decided to leave all American services. Ain't that hard really. https://www.goeuropean.org/ gives you many options for a lot of them.
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I work in data engineering, European cloud providers do not seem to be able to provide alternatives to managed data warehouses like Google Big Query or Snowflake.
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I work in data engineering, European cloud providers do not seem to be able to provide alternatives to managed data warehouses like Google Big Query or Snowflake.
Might be over due setting something up. Unless you don’t care about security.
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I work in data engineering, European cloud providers do not seem to be able to provide alternatives to managed data warehouses like Google Big Query or Snowflake.
Can't or don't ?
It's hard to compete against the mega buck providers, however if there is suddenly political willingness to buy locally then there are vendors that can build the capability. They'll only do so if it is likely to be profitable though. Chicken / egg conundrum that the EU and national govts can help solve
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And yet we still do it. See Germany.
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And as for data safety and privacy, another 1930s Dutch story. Dutch people are great at data and statistics, and very meticulous.
As a result, we have tons of data on people, including data on where someone's ancestors are from and what religion they have. The results of that, combined with a fascist regime were not pretty.
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There's backups of backups of everything now. I guess if the people in charge want to do it, they could security delete everything, but a random guy won't be able to, which is what happened in 1940.
no. A lot of agencies and firms have not learned that lesson yet. several lost decades of data in that Tietoevry problem:
https://www.dn.se/sverige/20-ar-av-data-borta-hackarna-kom-at-sakerhetskopior/ -
People just don't realize how much power of abuse all this data provides in evil hands. Take smart phone location data. Some time ago, there was an uproar when the move-fast-break-laws company Uber published an analysis of how many of their clients in New York City had probably a one-night stand - based on their location data. A breach of privacy, sure.
But think about this: Google is collecting all this location data all the time, and storing it permanently. Finding out who is probably having an affair while their spouse is away on a business trip is essentially a database query for them.
Or another thing: It is well known that the animal most dangerous to single humans is other humans hunting them. The unspeakable hunt on Europes Jews is an example from hell but depressingly, there are many more cases in human history, like the witch hunts or the catholic inquisition.
Now, if things got too hot, people had the last resort to flee and simply disappear, going to a safe place where nobody knows them. That was the thing that saved Salman Rushdi when he had to flee Iran.
But in an ultra-connected world without privacy, this is not possible any more. That's because companies like Facebook, Twitter/X and Google have your social graph including your family. And even if you would never would give these companies your address in Rushdie's situation, a family member who has your address on the phone would happily upload his or her whole address book to Facebook or Google.
That's not a theoretical consideration - being ratted out by social media was the way many people in Syrias civil war (fuelled by Russia) died.
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It never was.
The US have a history of using their intelligence agencies to help US companies win bids abroad, we may have been militarily allied, but in the business world we have been enemies for a long time
Using a non government owned and controlled cloud for the government is fucking stupid no matter who owns it. It's only a slightly less bad idea to host it on a cloud owned by an EU company still has the risk of the company being compromised and hiding it for too long.
