> If someone threatened me with death or offered a hefty ransom, I would be able to check their mails, sensitive documents or just browser history. And I am happy to never have been in that situation.
That sounds like a pretty sensible reason to not trust someone no? Politicians don't make the most sensible decisions at a time, but the ones were if they were to not work wouldn't be blamed on them.
Let's say there is an attack on Google or [insert random engineer name working for belgian goverment] and thousands of emails from politicians were leaked. The public outcry would be wildly different. In the case of google they would talk about how can a company hold so much sensitive data and power blah blah blah. In the case of random engineer much of the blame would be on the politician on why did they rely on a random person having access to all emails and sensitive information instead of a reliable company like google.
Sometimes the most popular answer is the best one because if you are wrong then everyone is wrong too.
The article doesn’t really make the point as clear as the snappy headline suggests.
Regardless of that, Belgium should IMO follow some of the other EU countries and invest in OSS solutions that they host/control rather than rely on US tech. But things always move slowly with Belgium’s convoluted political system.
US president is confirmed russian agent (the only reason why he won 2016 election). I am more worried about getting weapon systems from US. Like what if US decides to invade, and just switch off our F35 fighter jets at the same time?
Also importing energy from US seems quite risky (like dependecy on russia was). Belgium needs to promote their own gas extraction in coastal waters. Maybe look at local coal!
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That sounds like a pretty sensible reason to not trust someone no? Politicians don't make the most sensible decisions at a time, but the ones were if they were to not work wouldn't be blamed on them.
Let's say there is an attack on Google or [insert random engineer name working for belgian goverment] and thousands of emails from politicians were leaked. The public outcry would be wildly different. In the case of google they would talk about how can a company hold so much sensitive data and power blah blah blah. In the case of random engineer much of the blame would be on the politician on why did they rely on a random person having access to all emails and sensitive information instead of a reliable company like google.
Sometimes the most popular answer is the best one because if you are wrong then everyone is wrong too.
Regardless of that, Belgium should IMO follow some of the other EU countries and invest in OSS solutions that they host/control rather than rely on US tech. But things always move slowly with Belgium’s convoluted political system.
Also importing energy from US seems quite risky (like dependecy on russia was). Belgium needs to promote their own gas extraction in coastal waters. Maybe look at local coal!
And i totally agree with treason charges!