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nikeee | 1 month ago

What if the software is developed and potentially backdoored in the US and deployed by the EU team in the sovereign region? Or did they rewrite the entire AWS stack?

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trebligdivad|1 month ago

If the EU employees can look around the code, it would then get quite interesting if they were to point out a backdoor. which they would of course raise with an EU based CERT. In a way that protects US customers as well having a set that can't be stopped from doing that.

jojobas|1 month ago

Assuming EU employees get to see the sources, let alone own their building process.

crazygringo|1 month ago

I don't think there are any protections against that. On the other hand, you'd have to ask yourself how realistic it is that the US is forcing Amazon to secretly backdoor its own software for US spying abroad? I can't give an answer on that one, you'll have to form your own opinion.

I imagine that if a back door were ever discovered, AWS's reputation would tank so hard that a lot of companies would probably never do business with it again.

blibble|1 month ago

> how realistic it is that the US is forcing Amazon to secretly backdoor its own software for US spying abroad?

probably 100%?