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In Germany there's lots of paranoia, some justified and some not, about the NSA/Patriot act/etc. that leads to complete avoidance of American service providers
by m_fayer 9y ago
In Germany there's lots of paranoia, some justified and some not, about the NSA/Patriot act/etc. that leads to complete avoidance of American service providers and clouds. I've seen German companies at small scale doing mundane things running everything under the sun themselves like it's 1999, and with security infrastructure and procedures fit for a bank, protecting a small amount of uninteresting data.
- dijit 9y agoI would not call that a waste. The US has one of the most hostile governments regarding tech. It may feel wasteful now but being self-reliant (and having the knowledge of how to be) frees those companies enormously. And, yeah. Monopoly positions are toxic too. So curbing that is also of value not only to Germans but to all foreign states.
- m_fayer 9y agoThere is such a thing as too much of a good thing.