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Vipps is not decoupled today, but has been merged with the e-identity (BankID) and e-invoicing (eFaktura) to form a monopoly behemoth owned by most banks in Norway with DNB as the largest non-majority owner.
[1] Source in Norwegian: https://www.digi.no/artikler/telenor-og-dnb-gir-opp-valyou/3...
Only the notion that a country not in a hot war has no state secrets that can jeopardize security. Or just jeopardize the sitting government, this is a propaganda campaign after all.
If you think bordering an invaded Norway, and Finland at war with the soviets is a stable situation where you neutrality will never be challenged, then I think you should consider some counterfactuals.
Any secret that would make them an interesting target, or aggravate a potential enemy, is a security threat.
I think there is some money to be made selling food.
[1] https://restaurant.org/Downloads/PDFs/Research/SOI/restauran... [2] https://www.statista.com/forecasts/963597/software-revenue-i... [3] https://www.ifpi.org/news/IFPI-GLOBAL-MUSIC-REPORT-2019