Even non-American CSPs with assets in the US would required to cooperate with US regime and affiliated oligarch gangs.

As someone in the US who has been in audits where we had to attest to where our data was stored, also wtf.

Oh reading the article it means non-US sovereignty. Pretty sure anybody in IT at this point should know the US privacy laws are non-existent and US companies are in this position and have been for decades.

Yes <3

We need to expel Microsoft and its subsidiaries from this continent.

Gears like this are one of my minor pet peeve in media. I know this was AI but even humans get it wrong a lot.

Hopefully they are compiling data points to bring to the next BoD meeting. Maybe the last data points on PowerPoint.

Have you shared the CSRB report from 2023 with him already?

It identified a series of operational and strategic decisions by Microsoft that “collectively point to a corporate culture that deprioritized both enterprise security investments and rigorous risk management.” The report pulls no punches in its assessment, declaring that “the cascade of Microsoft’s avoidable errors that allowed this intrusion to succeed” was both preventable and unacceptable.

https://netchoice.org/cyber-safety-review-board-report-exposes-serious-flaws-in-microsofts-security-practices/

Good luck!

Please, please win out. Microsoft is a fuckin scourge on computing. They deserve nothing and get everything with their monopolistic bs.

Sounds like you're with a small company. Great news, it's worse in the bigger ones where the influence and opinions of the working level won't ever reach the ones making such decisions. Over time our computing work has been restricted and tightened so much (for security, you know) that running basic Office stuff can be difficult to do, particularly Excel and macros that we rely on to do our job. The computers have turned into little boxes that are essentially terminals for cloud run crap, and the last new upgrade for one of them (have to replace working equipment with the latest thing for security, again) was given to us with not only no Office installed, it was locked down so hard a user logged in couldn't save a file on their Desktop or in Documents. Also discovered by accident using a flash drive to transfer files can trigger a Bitlocker lockdown lol. Security again, even though all these units are in a secure building. IT by the way is now I think a single guy for us covering the whole region, probably remotely if he can, and I doubt he's better than the last one we had for years who would call someone else to walk him through stuff.

I don't doubt it's like this in some degree everywhere now.

Please make this a post, and keep us updated! I am interested to see if you manage to change anything.

Thank you for using the word SPIES. Call em what they are. I haven't heard that word in a long time.

Thank you for explaining the abbreviation.