Cloud madness

I read a piece by Bert Hubert the other day, that started like this:

The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King of America” keeps saying, the legal sophistry used to justify such transfers, like the nonsense letter the Dutch cabinet sent last week, has now been invalidated by Trump himself. And why are we doing this? Convenience. But it is very scary to make yourself 100% dependent on the goodwill of the American government merely because it is convenient. So let’s not.

You can read the whole post here.

Bert Hubert comes from Holland and describes himself as “an entrepreneur & software developer.”

He adds that “I sometimes contribute to science, I care a lot about Europe 🇪🇺, innovation, climate, biology & health. I’m a former shareholder of Open-Xchange, the parent company of PowerDNS which I founded in 1999. In 2020, I joined a government oversight board, which I have since left. These days I am a part-time technical advisor at the Dutch Electoral Council. Furthermore, I write articles, some of which have been published by places like the IETF, IEEE, RIPE, APNIC, the Swedish Electronics Standardisation Institute, but also by newspapers/magazines like Nature Scientific Data, De Volkskrant, Nederlands Dagblad, Villamedia, De Ingenieur, Knack and others”.