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  • Switzerland's Army chief Thomas Sรผssli wants to stop the introduction of Microsoft Office 365 in the army
  • Confidential data should not be stored in the US cloud, so the software is hardly usable and too expensive
  • He is calling for a separate, secure and private, Open Source-based IT solution - the Federal Chancellery is sticking with the Microsoft project for the time being
  • The background to Sรผssli's warning is also the US "Cloud Act", which allows American authorities access to data - even if it is located in data centers outside the USA

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He [Sรผssli] is therefore calling for an exit strategy from the Microsoft cloud and the development of a private or open source-based solution. This is the only way for the army to retain full control over its data.

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[โ€“] Wiredfire@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

The more headlines like this that do the rounds the less people roll their eyes at me when I tell them I will not have Windows 11 in my house and proceed to preach the virtues of Linux haha