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87% of Canada's biggest companies depend on US tech (proton.me)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/boycottus@lemmy.ca
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[+] [S] -7 points 1 month ago (10 children)

How naive Canadians are 🤡

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    The fuck are you talking about? We already know this. And up until the past few years, it was a non-issue. And for most large companies, disentangling from US tech ranges from difficult to impossible. No one was ever expecting it to happen instantly.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The first step in disentangling is actually not that hard.

    Switch. Email. Providers.

    I've been in a medium-sized business (about 500 people) who did that. The switch took a weekend, and managing the glitches that happened afterward took probably an extra two weeks.

    The next one isn't that hard either.

    Switch. Web site. Host.

    Same business did that as well. That literally took a weekend without glitching later.

    With those two alone that's a major chunk of a business' exposure to America tech firms (and thus American government retribution) gone.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    It was always and issue we just choose to ignore it. Why should our government email be accessible to Americans. America has the best spy network and it is just their software used by all the governments.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (1 child)

    It was an issue 20 years ago, it was an issue 10 years ago, and it was an issue 5 years ago.

    Don't believe the American lies that we used to be friends.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I've been consulting the CDN government about scientific and clinical trial data security concerns since 2008. Every government just kicks the ball forward and uses US tech because they pinky promise to not spy or steal the data.

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