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Microsoft is sharing Indian bank customers' data with U.S. intelligence agencies
- sneak 8y agoOf course they are. Any sufficiently large corporation in the US, hardware or software, exists and operates at the mercy of the US military, and should be expected to perform such tasks upon request whenever they have access to data the US military wants. This applies to AWS (all regions—Amazon is a US company), Google/Gmail/GCP (worldwide), Apple, Rackspace, Cisco, ATT/Verizon/Comcast, Visa, AmEx, Mastercard, Wells/BOA/Chase, PayPal, Facebook, Twitter, et c. Don’t expect these execs to spend money and time and risk imprisonment to impede one of the most powerful and unscrupulous military organizations on the planet. Joseph Nacchio was a rare exception. If you need an example, look what they did to Wikileaks even in the absence of an unsealed indictment. These people don’t care about laws or rights or STELLARWIND and MAINWAY and the like would never have been built. See also (2010): https://www.wired.com/2010/12/realtime/ https://www.wired.com/2010/12/realtime/
- fwn 8y agoI'm not working in the field, so I don't really have an idea on how the attitude in banking is towards cloud integration. I wonder: What is, from a banks perspective, the responsible solution here? An older MS Office or current MS Office without network connectivity? LibreOffice? I'm a huge fan of the suite, but, for example, Libres Excel isn't really comparable to MS Excel.