Biggest digital sovereignty fails so far
summary
Overview of concrete failures and who is locked out by whom: the F-35 arrives as a software-defined weapon with 8 million lines of code but the US forbids independent testing so purchaser nations cannot verify kill‑switch or backdoor risks; Palantir’s Gotham in 4 German states aggregates databases to profile ~50 million people under multi‑year contracts; Microsoft times Windows 10 end‑of‑life for 240 million devices prompting mass e‑waste; Deutsche Bahn moves 450 apps and 8,000 servers to AWS serving 6M users/day and 1,500 bookings/min, and consumer devices like Eight Sleep beds and networked pet feeders fail when US‑cloud regions go down.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to talk
- 1:29National defense failure
- 2:57Mass surveillance scandal
- 4:01Platform obsolescence issues
- 4:46Apple App Store censorship
- 6:11Double strategy critique
- 7:15Public transportation cloud move
- 8:23Judicial branch sanctions impact
- 9:48Hyperscaler dependency risks
- 10:55Audience voting results
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