Buy European
Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
Rules:
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Be kind to each other, and argue in good faith. No direct insults nor disrespectful and condescending comments.
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Include a disclaimer at the bottom of the post if you're affiliated with the recommendation.
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Useful Websites
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General BuyEuropean product database: https://buy-european.net/ (relevant post with background info)
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Switching your tech to European TLDR: https://better-tech.eu/tldr/ (relevant post)
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Buy European meta website with useful links: https://gohug.eu/ (relevant post)
Benefits of Buying Local:
local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.
European Instances
Lemmy:
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Basque Country: https://lemmy.eus/
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๐ง๐ช Belgium: https://0d.gs/
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๐น๐ท Turkey: https://lemmy.com.tr/
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๐ฌ๐ง UK: https://feddit.uk/
Friendica:
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๐ฆ๐น Austria: https://friendica.io/
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๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://poliverso.org/
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๐ฉ๐ช Germany: https://piratenpartei.social/ & https://anonsys.net/
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๐ซ๐ท Significant French speaking userbase: https://social.trom.tf/
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๐ต๐ฑ Poland: soc.citizen4.eu
Matrix:
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๐ฌ๐ง UK: matrix.org & glasgow.social
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๐ซ๐ท France: tendomium & imagisphe.re & hadoly.fr
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๐ฉ๐ช Germany: tchncs.de, catgirl.cloud, pub.solar, yatrix.org, digitalprivacy.diy, oblak.be, nope.chat, envs.net, hot-chilli.im, synod.im & rollenspiel.chat
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๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: bark.lgbt
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๐ฆ๐น Austria: gemeinsam.jetzt & private.coffee
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: pikaviestin.fi & chat.blahaj.zone
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"Don't worry, we encrypt all the data"
"I've heard as part of the prism program NSA has the encryption key?"
"I don't know the answer to that"
I wouldn't dare believe that anything in AWS or Azure or Google Cloud is out of reach for the US agencies unless the end-user has encrypted it with a key that the cloud provider doesn't have access to.
Some services in Azure, like storage accounts let you encrypt data with your own key in addition to MS's. But there's always some level of implicit trust with cloud based services, so y'know
Yes, but the encryption keys are stored in an azure key vault, so Microsoft still has the keys.
There's no difference whether you use customer managed keys or not, Microsoft always has the keys but customer managed keys are more hassle to give an illusion of security.
Yes there's other reasons to use them, but not to protect against Microsoft/us gov spying
Which is why companies that are concerned use something like vault do keys via API, and rotate them often instead of default services.
Anyone who cares is perfectly able to encrypt the entire system via third party tools which includes many foss projects.
The default 15 years ago was fuck it. AWS is pretty much the only reason security on the web is as *good as it is. At least Russia and China don't have free reign over your data ๐คทโโ๏ธ.
You missed their point, or youโre using a different term for โvaultโ. If youโre talking something like KeyVault, it still exists on Microsoft hardware, which means ultimately they could access it.
The only way they would have a lot of trouble is if you only stored the encrypted blob on their platform and then streamed it to something off platform (AWS, on-premises, etc. ) and decrypted it there so they never had access to the key.
That's why my data lives on redundant disks in the basement and my remote backup lives in a closet at my parents house. :)
Honestly that is the right answer.
Why would a media manager at MS know about what data is handed off to the NSA?
If the answer was no then I imagine being able to say so would be good for Microsoft in regards to both Public and Legal Affairs, so the fact that he doesn't know do say something in my opinion.
Knowing what the US is like for gag orders saying no would open a can of shareholder worms they don't want to touch at any distance.