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fodmaptoday at 6:32 PM4 repliesview on HN

I do agree blocking Palantir is a good move but the Spanish government is doing it for the wrong reason. Spain is storing all sort of data on Chinese servers, including their Intelligence, and Judicial wiretaps.

https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-huawei-contract-judici...


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athrowaway3ztoday at 7:06 PM

That is rather disturbing but this had me lol:

> Spain is “making a big mistake,” said Bart Groothuis [...] “Spain is now dependent on the country with the largest and most sophisticated offensive espionage program directed against us.”

I highly doubt he's naive enough to believe the "against us" qualifier exempts the operator of the largest and most sophisticated offensive espionage program ever.

croestoday at 6:44 PM

If the data is encrypted before the upload I see no problem

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mdni007today at 6:52 PM

As opposed to what? American servers with Isreali backdoors?

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tonyhart7today at 6:47 PM

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