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embedding-shapetoday at 12:37 PM3 repliesview on HN

I guess there are two types of "sovereignty" people talk about here.

First is "data sovereignty", which is what the current (data) migrations are all about. As long as the data remains in place where it cannot be suddenly locked away by the US government, people don't care if the CPU was purchased from the US, as the government cannot suddenly disable those (as far as we know at least).

Second is "hardware sovereignty", which is what this article talks about, about the geographical locations where the hardware is designed and built. This is obviously much harder, but also less important at this very moment. That's why you're not seeing people suddenly rushing to fund EU fabs for silicon, there are more important things to focus on right now, with real implications.

The article kind of does everyone a disservice by mixing the two and not clearly separating which ones it's actually talking about. But to be fair, if they did that, then they've wouldn't have been able to publish this whole "Look how they aren't actually sovereign after all" article if they did so, here we are...


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leonidasruptoday at 4:14 PM

"data sovereignty" for Europe should use the same technology as data protection from tech. giants for both US citizens and EU citizens.

1. Use open-source and Free as in Freedom software

It's always easier to place and hide backdoor into closed source software than open source software.

2. Use decentralized and federated communications networks

Even small organizations, groups should run own servers. Don't concentrate data at few cloud service providers.

masfuertetoday at 12:45 PM

The actual risk is that US spooks can use these hardware features to infiltrate European clouds. It's not just a theoretical concern about hardware sovereignty.

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aaron695today at 3:44 PM

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