Flutterby™! : The cloud is other people's computers

Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦 @vaurora@mstdn.social

I'm impressed by the neoliberal circular logic here.

The U.S. DoD "had" to move off its own computers to the cloud to save money. But the only way the cloud was cheaper was if Microsoft employed people in China at much lower wages to maintain it. So they "had" to invent American "digital escorts."

Basically, the cloud is only cheaper for the U.S. military if it is completely and totally compromised by its most powerful geopolitical adversary... 🤔

ProPublica: A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers