If they turn that off, they’re also turning off Github, npm, pypi, ghcr, docker.io, and all of your cloud storage instantly.
Every company without multiple backups is fucked. Every company that runs software will need to find new package repositories to pull from. Government clouds could get shut down. Android and iPhone will stop working without your iCloud and gmail authentication.
So, companies won’t have files, won’t be able to deploy code, will be clamouring for the few external clouds which are geographically located to Canada, and your phones won’t work (and you don’t know anyone’s number). The government likely will have massive downtime as well, as will your hospital, police, fire department, etc. all running on Windows.
We need to diversity now, write your MP, describe this scenario in detail, because it will be bad, and the more desperate Trump gets, the more likely this is to happen. In the last 365 days it’s gone from “not going to happen, put your tinfoil hat back on” to “well, they did it to the ICC, they just invaded Venezuela, and now they’re threatening to invade us”.
CEO of American tech companies: please murder all our business streams and income overnight. We hate money and surveilance.
Do it to everyone and they are broke overnight, do it to some, and everyone drops them with emergency expediency and they all go broke in weeks or months.
We aren’t there yet.
If they turn that off, they’re also turning off Github, npm, pypi, ghcr, docker.io, and all of your cloud storage instantly.
Every company without multiple backups is fucked. Every company that runs software will need to find new package repositories to pull from. Government clouds could get shut down. Android and iPhone will stop working without your iCloud and gmail authentication.
So, companies won’t have files, won’t be able to deploy code, will be clamouring for the few external clouds which are geographically located to Canada, and your phones won’t work (and you don’t know anyone’s number). The government likely will have massive downtime as well, as will your hospital, police, fire department, etc. all running on Windows.
We need to diversity now, write your MP, describe this scenario in detail, because it will be bad, and the more desperate Trump gets, the more likely this is to happen. In the last 365 days it’s gone from “not going to happen, put your tinfoil hat back on” to “well, they did it to the ICC, they just invaded Venezuela, and now they’re threatening to invade us”.
Yes. Very astute observation. Yet…
CEO of American tech companies: please murder all our business streams and income overnight. We hate money and surveilance.
Do it to everyone and they are broke overnight, do it to some, and everyone drops them with emergency expediency and they all go broke in weeks or months.