Too risky: Army chief Süssli says no to Microsoft Office 365
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Army chief Thomas Süssli pulls the emergency brake: the Swiss Armed Forces should break away from Microsoft. The risk of confidential data falling into the wrong hands is too great.
  • Switzerland’s Army chief Thomas Süssli wants to stop the introduction of Microsoft Office 365 in the army
  • Confidential data should not be stored in the US cloud, so the software is hardly usable and too expensive
  • He is calling for a separate, secure and private, Open Source-based IT solution - the Federal Chancellery is sticking with the Microsoft project for the time being
  • The background to Süssli’s warning is also the US “Cloud Act”, which allows American authorities access to data - even if it is located in data centers outside the USA

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He [Süssli] is therefore calling for an exit strategy from the Microsoft cloud and the development of a private or open source-based solution. This is the only way for the army to retain full control over its data.

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  • faltrykaEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    As an American, he’s not wrong. Our government is absolutely not to be trusted and will abuse any power you give them to advance their own personal interests (which align with the current highest bidder, flatterer, or Israel).

    Please get out while you can.