Lisa DruckerMay 17, 2025
Peter Schaar

#Microsoft has blocked its services to the International Criminal Court by order of Donald #Trump. The #ICC prosecutor doesn’t have access to his #email. Source:AP

https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work

Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan. He has lost access to his email and his bank accounts have been frozen. American staffers at The Hague-based court also have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest. In addition, some nongovernmental organizations have stopped working with the ICC. Rights groups say these problems will prevent victims of war crimes from getting justice.

AP News
May 15, 2025 at 8:42pmMetatext
Show threadJens 🇪🇺May 15, 2025
@PWS_1 Great reminder of the risks of saas.
Show threadAndyGER May 15, 2025
@PWS_1 @janboehm https://troet.cafe/@andreas_heitmann/114513445217178951
AndyGER :verified_coffee: (@[email protected])

Wie schnell es doch gehen kann, dass ein IT Partner wie #Microsoft wichtiges Services für ein ganzes Land sperren kann. Der Umgang mit US amerikanischen IT Konzernen sollte in Europa schnellstmöglich überdacht werden! Bevor es ein sehr böses erwachen gibt und nichts mehr funktioniert … 🇪🇺 https://social.anoxinon.de/@RoedigerRG/114507201227166306

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Show threadJimi JakesMay 15, 2025
@PWS_1 #unplugtrump
Show threadℂ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕖@world: /# May 15, 2025

@PWS_1 Let that be a lesson learned. Such institutions should run on public and open source infrastructure.

Governments and international institutions shouldn't be dependent on private companies.

Show threadJona JoachimMay 16, 2025
@celeste_42bit
I really don't get why everybody is using Microsoft360 for mail. It's really not difficult to set up a mail infrastructure and it offers so much flexibility to have your own. Make international criminal investigation mails go through Microsoft ? wtf?
@PWS_1
Show threadStreetDoggMay 16, 2025

@jaj @celeste_42bit @PWS_1

Because MS Office, Windows, Active Directory, Exchange/O365, MS Teams, Sharepoint, OneDrive, ... is essentially one tool.

If you *only* need mail, you can use whatever you want, but that's not how IT works.

You can spend endless hours trying to make dozens of different tools kinda work together but not really, or just buy one tool. Microsoft for everything. You barely even have to host anything anymore. Nothing else can even remotely compete.

Show threadtessaraktMay 24, 2025
@StreetDogg @jaj @celeste_42bit @PWS_1 Then you have all that stuff not working properly, but together. I fail to see the advantage.
Show threadJona JoachimMay 24, 2025
@tessarakt
I think the biggest problem is the skill of sysadmins declining steadily
@StreetDogg @celeste_42bit @PWS_1
Show threadBohwaZMay 16, 2025
@celeste_42bit
It's not clear in the article but it seems that it's his private email address, from what I understand?
@PWS_1
Show threadDanMay 16, 2025
@bohwaz @celeste_42bit @PWS_1 it‘s not private. The ICC is using M365. Apparently they just locked his account, not all of ICC
Show threadBohwaZMay 16, 2025
@dan
Oh this is beyond stupid for justice to use an external provider...
@celeste_42bit @PWS_1
Show threadGondorMay 15, 2025

@PWS_1
Hate to say: Told ya so!

It's only one of the first signs what that #ClubOfOligarchs is able to do.
...up to ICANN all the most powerful providers of digital infrastructures are based in the U.S.
Are you seen as an enemy you get satellites switched off, access to sciencedatas, cloudservices or maybe even countries blocked...

Show threadCoreForceMay 15, 2025
@PWS_1 Dies sendet hoffentlich das richtige Signal an alle 365-Kunden, welche an der Kontinuität ihrer Geschäftsabläufe interessiert sind.
Show thread★Pope Miller the Defondor, SBIMay 15, 2025
@PWS_1 "No backup - no mercy."
So simple.
Show threadℒӱḏɩę 💾☮∞🎶♲☀🔋May 15, 2025
@PWS_1 Every day we learn more that MAGA = Fascist
Show threadLinkszentriker CrisMay 15, 2025
@PWS_1 Maybe governments and institutions in Europe will finally wake up and switch to a linux based OS.
Show threadBebef 🦦🇪🇺🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚙🐼🥦🚩🏴May 16, 2025
@alteNBnordpfalz @PWS_1 Haha, good one!
Show threadJohnnoMay 16, 2025
@PWS_1 My subscription to MS365 runs out at the end of June and is not being renewed - ever!
Show threadChris Lilley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿May 16, 2025
@PWS_1 If only there was some open-source email stack they could use.
Show threadDoc AWFL*May 16, 2025
@PWS_1 I've been telling people and telling people and telling people you can't trust Microsoft. How many universities and big law firms rest on Microsoft Exchange for email, calendaring, Teams (their version of Slack/Discord), and cloud storage? What happens when that asshole figures he can cripple operations by shutting off access for, oh, say, Harvard? He could extort anything out of anyone.
Show threadhelgenugMay 16, 2025

@PWS_1

#NichtsIstUnpolitisch

@janboehm

Show threadAdële 🐁May 16, 2025

@PWS_1

So it happens to the International Criminal Court

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/what-if-us-cut-off-big-tech-from-europe.md

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Show threadhambierMay 16, 2025

@PWS_1 The source link doesn't mention Microsoft? (I'm not really contesting what you're saying, but the linked source does not quite fit.)

edit: never mind, I didn't have my coffee yet...

Show threadMatt PalmerMay 16, 2025
@hambier "Microsoft, for example, cancelled Khan’s email address"
Show threadtessaraktMay 24, 2025
@womble @hambier Why is Microsoft Netherlands allowed to comply with extraterritorial sanctions of the US and violate contracts with the ICC presumably concluded under Dutch law?
Show threadJonMay 16, 2025

@hambier @PWS_1 yes, it does:
"Microsoft, for example, cancelled Khan’s email address, forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider, ICC staffers said. His bank accounts in his home country of the U.K. have been blocked.

Microsoft did not respond to a request for comment."

Show threadlowMay 16, 2025
@hambier @PWS_1 « Microsoft, for example, cancelled Khan’s email address, forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider, ICC staffers said. His bank accounts in his home country of the U.K. have been blocked. » or is it me, being non-english native to have some misunderstanding ?
Show threadDentaku (Thomas Renger)May 16, 2025

@hambier @PWS_1 Yes it does. Quote from the article:

"… Microsoft, for example, cancelled Khan’s email address, forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider …"

Show threadreindeerphotoMay 16, 2025
@PWS_1
Wer #microsoft-Produkte nuzt ist selbst schuld.
#foss #freesoftware #opensource
.
#ceterumcenseoAfDessedelendam
Show threadRobMay 16, 2025
@PWS_1 Let this have a severe, lasting impact on US control of tech, and SaaS.
Show threadBobbi BetamaxMay 16, 2025
@PWS_1 awful, but a great example to use to push the rest of the world to GTFO of the US tech cloud.
Show thread🐧DaveNull🐧 ☣️pResident Evil☣May 16, 2025

@PWS_1 Who could have guessed tech mega-corpo-rat-ions work for fascists and war criminals…?

Especially the very same company that does business with the ICE 🤮

And yet, we're the "extremists", and "we shouldn't have nothing to hide unless we did something bad" when we say don't trust these companies…

Show threadLinus GasserMay 16, 2025
@PWS_1 First they blocked Iran, then China, now that they're blocking us, we cannot speak up, because we don't have access to our emails anymore.
Show threadSøren FrølichMay 16, 2025
@PWS_1 Maybe it's time for us all to quit using Microsofts services. Even when still using Windows as OS there are manygood alternatives.
Show threadSøren FrølichMay 16, 2025
@PWS_1 Maybe it's time for us all to quit using Microsofts services. Even when still using Windows as OS there are manygood alternatives.
Show threadWolf L-EMay 16, 2025

@PWS_1
Digitale Souveränität ohne "MicroDoof" 😂

Da bin ich mal gespannt, wie die deutschen Behörden - ausschließlich Schleswig-Holstein 😊👍 - demnächst aus der Wäsche gucken werden 🥵, wenn sie aus unerfindlichem Grund nicht mehr an ihre Daten kommen! Erst zahlen sie gedankenlos jährlich Milliarden Beträge unserer Steuergelder an einen US-Broligarchen, und dann... haben sie das vermutlich nichts vorherahnen können 😜

https://www.de.digital/DIGITAL/Redaktion/DE/Stadt.Land.Digital/Strategien/digitalisierungs-programm-schleswig-holstein.html

#DigitaleSouveränität #OpenSource #SchleswigHolstein

Digitalisierungs-Programm Schleswig-Holstein

Show threadWolf L-EMay 16, 2025

@PWS_1
Nachschlag gefällig?

Sogar das BSI, sie sollten es eigentlich besser wissen, ergibt sich in die Leibeigenschaft eines weiteren Bro's anstatt Europäisch zu denken und zu investieren 😜

https://blog.google/intl/de-de/feed/google-cloud-und-bsi-sichere-cloud-losungen-in-der-offentlichen-verwaltung/

Es gilt halt immer noch:
Es geschieht nichts Gutes,
außer man tut es

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Google Cloud und das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) haben eine Kooperationsvereinbarung geschlossen, um sichere und souveräne Cloud-Lösungen für die öffentliche Verwaltung zu entwickeln.Ein Schwerpunkt liegt auf Datensouveränität und Einhaltung deutscher sowie europäischer Datenschutzbestimmungen.Die Kooperation umfasst das gesamte Google Cloud-Portfolio, einschließlich KI-Anwendungen.Gemeinsame Entwicklung von Post-Quanten-Kryptografie und Einsatz von Brainpool-Kurven für langfristige Datensicherheit.Ein neu eingerichtetes „Kooperationsforum“ dient als zentrale Koordinierungsstelle und Single Point of Contact (SPoC) für alle Belange der Zusammenarbeit.Diese Partnerschaft markiert einen wichtigen Meilenstein für die digitale Souveränität in Deutschland. Mehr Details findet ihr auf dem Google Cloud Blog.

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Show threadVessOnSecurityMay 16, 2025
@PWS_1 It's almost as if Microsoft has to comply with the US government's orders...
Show threadLupo_BavariaMay 16, 2025
@PWS_1 Es gibt sehr leistungsfähige Server-Dienstleister für vielfältige Bürodienstleistungen in Europa.
Show threadSecuropeanMay 16, 2025
@PWS_1 What happens when Trump decides that some other person, or company, or country should be cut off from using the services of US cloud companies.
Show threadStege 🐜May 16, 2025
@PWS_1 oh well, i would call this an advantage and an opportunity to increase software security of their Systems.
Show threadPeter BrownMay 16, 2025
@PWS_1 blocked by the international criminal in chief.
Show threadШуроMay 16, 2025
@PWS_1 Cloud infrastructure and all.
Show threadSecondUniverse (she/her/they)May 16, 2025
@PWS_1 I would like to get away from M$ entirely, but my hotmail address dates back to 1995. It would take years for a new address to attract such a rich variety of spam and scams.
Show threadRyek DarkenerMay 16, 2025

@PWS_1

It’s always a very good idea to have reliable backup as well as alternatives.

Show threadJustbeepMay 17, 2025

@PWS_1
@SPDde
@cdu

Wer daraus nichts lernt und weiter auf #Microsoft und #palantir setzt, ist heute schon politischer #Schnee von #gestern .

Aber vielleicht tropfen ja deswegen jetzt schon vielen in der #cdu die Schweißperlen aus den Anzügen und sie wehren sich mit Händen und Füßen gegen ein #AfD #Verbotsverfahren ?