Spy scandal to hurt Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco

I think that this is more about China specifically growing its internal development than it is a Snowden effect. Don't get me wrong, I'd be incredibly uncomfortable hosting a non-US site reliant on hardware or software for countries very complicit with the illegal data retention of the NSA for years now.

I think that freedom and liberty are very important, and that our own government has consistently compromised both for the benefit of a small few.

One of my managers asked me to look at Cisco 'Meraki' as a possible provisioning system for our work Macs last week. Although it does look rather nice, the interface certainly is user-friendly and fast, I'm extremely uncomfortable handing root permissions for all of our macs to a US based company (or any company, to be honest).

It really isn't long until being a USA based company is going to be a real problem for anyone wanting to offer any kind of IT services outside of the States.