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It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds - Bert Hubert's writings (berthub.eu)
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[โ€“] Limonene@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I agree that recent events have made it unsafe to host anything on a US company's cloud server.

But I disagree that recent events are the biggest reason not to host anything on Google, AWS, or Microsoft servers. You should have gotten away from them long ago.

[โ€“] tonytins@pawb.social 6 points 5 months ago

You should have gotten away from them long ago.

While I agree, open source technology hadn't yet fully matured when the NSA leaks first dropped. Something like Owncloud had only recently launched back then.