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Head of Swiss armed forces is sceptical of Microsoft Cloud (www.srf.ch)

submitted 2 weeks ago by freeman@feddit.org to c/opensource@programming.dev

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The "Bundeskanzlei" is already switching to opensource solutions and will keep in contact with Army Chief Süssli.

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is from the autotranslated version of the article but

He therefore calls for a separate, private cloud solution for classified documents to be examined.

Why does a word processor need to involve the "cloud" at all?

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Because people want to share documents across various computers. A secure cloud is better than people emailing classified pdfs to authorized distribution lists, or carrying around the document you're working on in a thumb drive.

That said, I wouldn't trust Microsoft, either.

[–] freeman@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

And they being stored in a "cloud" (or NAS) is necessary for every bigger institution nowadays. Because people work together and not each for themselves in their own libreoffice writer.

[–] Sidhean@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

"Private Cloud" sounds like "our server. (that we have. in our military building.)"