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Looking at Microsoft's proposal, it looks like the sovereign data centers will be ran by non-Microsoft owned European companies? But the software would be from
by whazor 1y ago
Looking at Microsoft's proposal, it looks like the sovereign data centers will be ran by non-Microsoft owned European companies? But the software would be from Microsoft.
I wonder how much difference would there be between a European company running a DC or Microsoft running a DC under a Microsoft European entity.
Windows itself has had backdoors via viruses. But even the Linux kernel has been vulnerable in the past to backdoors, so there is also that.
- LadyCailin 1y agoAzure is provided by 21vianet in China, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/21Vianet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/21Vianet and is only accessible to people in China (maybe there are more requirements too, like security clearances, etc) but folks in Redmond can’t get direct access to these servers, even the ones running only Microsoft software - they have to get an escort, and tell the escort what to do for them. They can only see the screen, so long as the escort allows it. So I imaging there’s no reason this same approach can’t have done in Europe, and Microsoft already has development centers all over Europe, so they already have the necessary employees to run this, to some degree anyways.