mc.flyMay 26

The dutchies have a centralized identity that you are using to basically interact with everything government. That contains pensions and health related issues.

This is called DigID. It is run by a company called Solvinity an was was supposed to be taken over by a U.S. company called Kyndryl.

The dutch cabinet (= government) has now blocked this takeover.

I think the topic of souvernty is slowly landing in the right heads. I guess also ... thank you @bert_hubert and everyone else making noise there🙂

https://nltimes.nl/2026/05/26/netherlands-blocks-us-takeover-digid-operator-solvinity-security-concerns

#infosec #cybersecurity #souveraeneInfrastruktur #sovereignty #digid

Show threadPhosphenesMay 26

@mcfly @bert_hubert

I don't know how much this has sunk in around the world, but the current US administration is fully criminal. It does not respect any law or boundary it can break.

That includes any US corporation they have any power over, which is basically all of them.

Run, don't walk, away from any dealings with them, as if your life depended on it. Your data is not safe, your infrastructure is not safe, your lives are not safe.

Show threadThomas Fricke (he/his)May 26

@Phosphenes @mcfly @bert_hubert

RE:https://23.social/@thomasfricke/116641368107417833

I try to avoid the Cassandra effect

Thomas Fricke (he/his) (@[email protected])

At DevOpsCon in Berlin I will give a talk on why you MUST include digital sovereignty into your risk assessment. This is not the "everything is said, but not by everybody" kind of talk. This is the "get the fuck out of it" kind of talk. https://devopscon.io/devsecops/digital-sovereignty-resilient-cloud-risk-assement/ #digitalsovereignty #security #devsecops #devops #kubernetes #cloud

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Show threadmc.flyMay 26

@thomasfricke
Nice. I want the slides :-)

@Phosphenes @bert_hubert

Show threadThomas Fricke (he/his)

@mcfly @Phosphenes @bert_hubert

You will get them. Will be created one day ahead. Normally I write them on the way to the event. But this time I will cycle

May 26 at 3:03pmWeb