Someone should warn them that the use of Fox News puppets to lead government departments is not only a breach of trust, but also makes the country more vulnerable.
I have a weird take whenever stuff like this comes up but its in my humble opinion that world governments shouldn’t rely on corporate developed software or even maybe hardware.
This is definitely hindsight is always 20/20 sort of thinking but governments should have long ago realized that trusting the likes of Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. would leave them reliant on their innovations and also subject to their whims, mistakes, and more.
Basically I’m saying World governments all need their own internal OS developed and maintained internally by an official subdivision of said governments, and maybe even a separate branch developing internally utilized hardware.
Never gonna happen, and I’m sure there are issues with this solution, but its a hypothetical I think about whenever something tech related and the government comes up in the news, which is pretty much every day now.
This is definitely hindsight is always 20/20 sort of thinking but governments should have long ago realized that trusting the likes of Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. would leave them reliant on their innovations and also subject to their whims, mistakes, and more.
Well, I would suppose that a government, if it really want, have more than one way to solve this problem, it is not a small business that can’t fight back. And it can fight back in more ways than just “I will switch vendor”
Basically I’m saying World governments all need their own internal OS developed and maintained internally by an official subdivision of said governments, and maybe even a separate branch developing internally utilized hardware.
Yes, but it would be a nightmare to communicate even with your allies if everyone has a different OS running on differen hardware since at some point you will need to communicate with someone.
I work for one of the world’s largest proprietary software companies.
100% agree with you
Countries should fund open source OS, browser, mobile OS. It is in their best interest.
Countries are not run in their best interest. They are run in the best interest of their ultra wealthy.
On the other hand, have you ever seen a government authored operating system?
No, and I’m sure the various OS’s that have been made by Governments have their (sometimes severe) flaws. But it is a potential solution to government reliance on corporate technologies nevertheless.
And also community profits. But I don’t see it happen because politicians are dumb. In my country (EU) they still use X and Facebook only to communicate on social media. Microsoft is also heavily embedded in all pores.
Totally agree, but at this point Microsoft is so ingrained in the US federal government that it’s practically a branch of it.
Have another whisky, Pete. We know you’re shaking them down for protection money, fuck off.
DUI hire.
Breach of trust doesn’t have a price tag attached to it. Wake me up when there are any consequences.
racism.
Wrong. This is operational security warfare. China, Russia, and every adversary should be holding the same attitude towards us if they’re worth their salt at protecting their internal national assets.
It doesn’t matter that its Chinese people by blood, its Team-U vs Team-C.
Now, the shitbags crying about this probably are doing it from ill-intentioned positions and are most definitely racist, but while their broad intentions are evil, this is one of those cliché “broken clock right twice a day” moments.
Technically backwards, those who encouraged and signed off on the deployment of Microsoft products breached security standards. If they did not ensure the contract ensured compliance with all applicable security requirements then they should not have given Microsoft a free pass to pools of money.
The same applies to virtually all fortune 1000 contracts that the Department of Defense has. Let the pain flow.
I think some billionaires are having buyer’s remorse.
The use of Azure to help with the systematic murder of a people: totally cool in Hegseth’s eyes.
