US administration asked to kick UK out of 65-year-old Five Eyes intelligence sharing agreement after secret order to access encrypted data of Apple users.
Imagine how much damage Trump will do once he starts wielding his dictatorial powers using big tech companies and cloud providers. If he banned them from servicing any country he could cripple their governments and critical infrastructure, who are dependent on some combination of Windows / Azure, AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, etc.
America’s former allies need to start the transition to Linux and non-US/distributed services NOW. It would take a decade under the best of circumstances.
Probably wise to even ditch US based distros like Debian and Fedora too.
Sharing intelligence with a country that is threatening you with tariffs at the drop of the hat seems stupid to begin with.
I would have thought the US spooks would jump at the chance to get their hands on some ripe, juicy unencrypted data. I thought that’s what 5 Eyes was all about.
There’s about to be three eyes because I wouldn’t trust shit coming from the U.S. right now. The UK should back down so there’s 4 eyes. 🤓