Open post krubzor @krubzor@mastodon.social · 17mo ago Replying to @evacide@hachyderm.io <p>Q&A from a talk I gave last week. </p><p>Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?"</p><p>A: Fascism. It's fascism.</p> @evacide@hachyderm.io good point. The issue is always ethical rather than external, no matter the time and contemporary technology
Open post krubzor @krubzor@mastodon.social · 15mo ago Replying to @petersuber@fediscience.org <p>The French city of Lyon is dropping <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> software in favor of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> alternatives. It doesn't want to depend on proprietary, closed-source software, and it doesn't want to depend on *American* software. It doesn't want "potential [US] governmental surveillance." <br /><a href="https://news.itsfoss.com/french-city-replaces-microsoft/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.itsfoss.com/french-city-r</span><span class="invisible">eplaces-microsoft/</span></a></p><p>PS: It seems clear that <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> is playing a role here. While he uses tariffs to boost American companies, he scares foreign buyers away from American companies, at least software companies that collect user data. He's creating a <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/TikTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TikTok</span></a> problem for American software. Microsoft didn't help itself on this front by giving $1 million to the Trump inauguration.</p><p>BTW, many other US closed-source software companies gave $1m to the Trump inauguration, among them Adobe, Amazon, Google, Meta, and Perplexity.</p> @petersuber@fediscience.org this is the future, I hope Sweden does this too