It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
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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:
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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.
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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.
Using a cloud is fucking stupid no matter who does it
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Using a cloud is fucking stupid no matter who does it
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Never was.
The cloud was always a slow walk off a long pier approach to data takeover. It sickens me.
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The entire world is too Microsoftified, but with the rise of flatpaks, Linux may change that.
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As a dev I have had this workflow at a previous employer:
I start my Windows 11 work laptop. I write emails to my coworkers on Outlook, I take notes in OneNote, I make presentations in PowerPoint. We have remote meetings on Teams.
I use GitHub and GitHub Actions. I host packages on npm. I write my TypeScript code with VSCode with help from GitHub Copilot, the C# .NET Core code with Visual Studio.
I login in to everything usingusing Single Sign On with Active Directory.
And everything we make is of course run on Microsoft Azure.
Yes, everything mentioned here is owned or maintained by Microsoft.
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It was never safe
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The entire world is too Microsoftified, but with the rise of flatpaks, Linux may change that.
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The entire world is too Microsoftified, but with the rise of flatpaks, Linux may change that.
Distros need to make working with flatpacked applications easier. It's way too hard to figure out where files are being saved or how to give apps access to the right resources. FlatSeal helps, but it's not really geared towards casual users.
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It was never safe
The mask is off now.
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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.
I really hope that's as true as you say since Trump has deleted millions of documents from government databases, tons of which contained invaluable information.
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As a dev I have had this workflow at a previous employer:
I start my Windows 11 work laptop. I write emails to my coworkers on Outlook, I take notes in OneNote, I make presentations in PowerPoint. We have remote meetings on Teams.
I use GitHub and GitHub Actions. I host packages on npm. I write my TypeScript code with VSCode with help from GitHub Copilot, the C# .NET Core code with Visual Studio.
I login in to everything usingusing Single Sign On with Active Directory.
And everything we make is of course run on Microsoft Azure.
Yes, everything mentioned here is owned or maintained by Microsoft.
I use all of those Microsoft products at a sensitive department of the Federal government of Canada, and they are NOT ready to transition away
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The cloud shit was the stupidest idea. Sorry, you want to be an industry leader your going to need industry leading tech professionals.
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