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Opinion: True digital sovereignty begins at the desktop

Nothing has changed since then, except that folks are getting a wee bit more concerned about their privacy now that President Donald Trump is in charge of the US. You may have noticed that he and his regime love getting their hands on other people’s data.

Privacy isn’t the only issue. Can you trust Microsoft to deliver on its service promises under American political pressure? Ask the EU-based International Criminal Court (ICC) which after it issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes, Trump imposed sanctions on the ICC. Soon afterward, ICC’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, was reportedly locked out of his Microsoft email accounts. Coincidence? Some think not. Microsoft denies they had anything to do with this.

  • @Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    9•11 days ago

    What about the security implications to all the Linux users? If the EU switches to Linux, it’s suddenly going to become a significantly larger target for hackers and virus programmers. So far, we’ve been kinda flying under the radar, but that could change.

    • BombOmOmEnglish
      25•11 days ago

      Most of the internet, huge portions of the world’s servers run on Linux. It has had a huge bullseye on it for a long, long time.

      • @Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2•10 days ago

        They are run by professionals who should know what they’re doing. Normies at home could be attacked by the same viruses and exploits.

    • @HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      18•11 days ago

      I have worked in several large organizations with over 10,000 enployees and if needed you can tighten Linux Desktop systems to be really safe - one of the largest customers of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the US Military.

      Desktop Linux has still some large advantages. On Windows systems, the boundary between “executable code that is part of the system” and “untrusted data and documents coming from the network” is constantly blurred. This is not a good thing. Linux keeps that boundary, and thus makes it much safer.

      Also the unholy amount of sensitive and confidential data that is squirreled away by the Windows OS. How can e.g. Engineering companies even tolerate that?

      And one aspect which enterprises put wayy to little concern in - the US cloud systems are all pure attention suckers. Notifucations, Messages, Updates, News - all this costs a lot of precious time and even more of precious attention. It is not just smart phones, also Windows is infested with principles of addictive design.

    • mesaEnglish
      10•11 days ago

      Since most servers are running some version of *Nix, its already happening. Just with more eyes on the code.