Richard StallmanJan 29

[1/3] https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/every-data-centre-is-a-u-s-military-base/

European countries, and the UN, have discovered that depending on US companies for digital services puts them at risk of harassment or attack. The marketing term "the cloud" is used to lull people into disregarding the question of where their data is really kept, and who controls it. We have been saying for ten years that "There is no cloud - only computers belonging to others." When the "other"

Every data centre is a U.S. military base - CCPA

Understanding how the United States uses its tech companies to serve empire

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[2/3] is a US company, including Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft, you're making a mistake by using it. But the US is not the only country that might attack you. When the "other" is a non-US company, that too may be a mistake. So do your computing on your own computers, running only free software (since that's the software that users can control), and keep your data on your own computers too. It is safe to encrypt an archive on your own computer with the GNU Privacy Guard then save the
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[3/3] encrypted file on someone else's computer. But don't let the only copies be saved like that.