Comment on German Chancellor promotes government cloud from SAP and Microsoft

n3cr0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• DarkThoughts@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sovereignity by ditching open source software for a proprietary solution made by a US company?

  SAP is German.

  Does Scholz really expect someone checking it thoroughly, each time?

  Let's not pretend that people do this with open source software either. Especially obfuscated mechanisms might not even be seen by the few people who do check it.

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  • raef@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably referring to Microsoft. That’s the one of the two with all the cloud experience

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  • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m aware you can intentionally try to make source code unreadable but I do not know of any examples. Do you?

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They meant backdoors hidden in plain sight, so making it readable, but innocent. People do that.

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  • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People notice the oddest things, look at the xz malware incident. All because some guy figured a decompression subroutine in his software was taking a bit longer than expected.

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