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[–] 62 points 4 months ago (6 children)

As a matter of national security we need to move our digital services to Canadian platforms, or platforms other than Microsoft.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago

    Microsoft made sure the definition of a "Canadian company" is based on the number of employees in Canada so they qualify for those contracts. No joke. I want to RFP something besides PowerBI and all the little open source shops don't qualify. Microsoft does.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Yes, yes, and yes. Microslop has shown they will “accidentally” leak stuff if you threaten to move so governments should move.

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago

    As they realized in Europe, Microsoft will turn data over to the US govt if requested, so using it on sensitive systems should be seen as a bigger security threat than some video app.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Yup, doesn't matter where the data centres are - a contract is only as trustworthy as the person or company you signed it with. Throwing all your government and medical and everything else docs on somebody else's computer with a "trust me bro" privacy statement seems like a recipe for disaster.

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