Post #4528294 · Elektrine

2026-08-23 16:55 UTC

If you live outside of the United States, do you know if your country has a plan if the US government decided to cut access to Google, Microsoft, and Amazon products overnight? What would happen to your work? What would happen to your hospitals? What would happen to your emergency services? What would happen to your banks? Imagine overnight, for all those public services and private businesses, no more Windows, no more AWS, no more Google and Microsoft office software, no more remote files storage, no more emails, no more online maps, no more videochats. What would happen? Is your country prepared? #DataSovereignty

Replies (4)

@TimWardCam@c.im 2026-08-23 20:16

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange You could have included Visa and Mastercard.

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@dfs_comedy@mastodon.social 2026-08-23 18:47

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange I personally would feel no effects other than my Android phone not having access to Google services. I host my own email, my own chat server, my own videoconferencing software, and so on. I rely on nothing from Amazon or Microsoft and only non-critical things from Google. But you are right. Almost everyone else in my country would be in big trouble, and in the end, I would be too because I do rely on stores, hospitals, etc.

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@guigsy@mstdn.social 2026-08-23 19:50

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange You'll be hard pressed to find a business that doesn't use Google or MS desktop apps. A good chunk of businesses have their enterprise applications in US controlled cloud. And those that don't are often using third party apps and SaaS that rely on US cloud under the hood. Basically, losing connections to Google, MS and AWS would shut down a country. Which is why we need IT sovereignty... but it's not an easy problem to solve. US tech is ingrained deep!

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@zoid@infosec.exchange 2026-08-24 05:23

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange @chu@climatejustice.social When I was warning about this many years ago, people called me naive, stupid and told me the world doesn’t work that way and I just hate Microsoft (which I do).

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