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German Chancellor promotes government cloud from SAP and Microsoft (www.heise.de)
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[–] [email protected] 67 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sovereignity by ditching open source software for a proprietary solution made by a US company? How depraved is our dear Bundeskanzler?! The source code of each software update will be made available to the German service provider. Does Scholz really expect someone checking it thoroughly, each time?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Sovereignity by ditching open source software for a proprietary solution made by a US company?

SAP is German.

Does Scholz really expect someone checking it thoroughly, each time?

Let's not pretend that people do this with open source software either. Especially obfuscated mechanisms might not even be seen by the few people who do check it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm aware you can intentionally try to make source code unreadable and making open source software effectively proprietary but I do not know of any examples of people doing that. Do you?

[–] rottingleaf 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They meant backdoors hidden in plain sight, so making it readable, but (EDIT: seemingly) innocent. People do that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Probably referring to Microsoft. That's the one of the two with all the cloud experience

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

People notice the oddest things, look at the xz malware incident. All because some guy figured a decompression subroutine in his software was taking a bit longer than expected.