US administration asked to kick UK out of 65-year-old Five Eyes intelligence sharing agreement after secret order to access encrypted data of Apple users.

  • @WhatAmLemmy
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    24 hours ago

    Imagine how much damage Trump will do once he starts wielding his dictatorial powers using big tech companies and cloud providers. If he banned them from servicing any country he could cripple their governments and critical infrastructure, who are all dependent on some combination of Windows / Azure, AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, etc.

    If he wanted to invade canada the fascist secret police could push updates to all of Canadas Windows, Apple, and Android devices — that bricks them like ransomware at a set time and date — and disable all their cloud services; crippling the entire economy without firing a shot.

    America’s former allies need to start the transition to Linux and non-US/distributed services NOW. It would take a decade under the best of circumstances.

    • ms.lane
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      522 hours ago

      Probably wise to even ditch US based distros like Debian and Fedora too.