alt Hacker NewsOh, the joys of public infrastructure privatization...
There's a lesson to be learnt here, extending beyond digital infrastructures.
The Dutch government should have outsourced DigiD hosting to SURF [1] which already had extensive experience with cloud services and is virtually immune to foreign influence.
Yes but our government was deeply neoliberal, pushed for by the VVD party and obsessed with privatisation and markets. This is what caused this mess and many others.
They also adore the US (as an example Mark Rutte, the current NATO boss was their foreman and prime minister for a decade) so dependency on the US was never a problem for them until 2025 when Trump turned against his allies.