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I mean, isn't the possibility of any of the major cloud vendors getting 'hacked', or cryptolocked, one of the biggest threads to any country?

I'd say Microsoft is the most likely of the big three for this to happen to. It seems like every few weeks there's some discovery of a big security breach there.

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> I mean, isn't the possibility of any of the major cloud vendors getting 'hacked', or cryptolocked, one of the biggest threads to any country?

Right, but I think the point in this case is that Microsoft was rent seeking with the logs.

To your point, I’ve been wondering lately how much of a national security threat outsourcing, offshoring and H1B in tech poses more generally.

Indeed. They have a particular responsibility.-

> Safety regulations, particularly in the military are frequently written in the blood of the fallen

... as one of the comments would put it, tellingly.-

  PS. Also, see Boeing ...

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