[jmnicolas]

> "Since the Summer of Snowden what we have feared had become true: almost all modern hardware platforms used for hosting contain potential backdoors or exploitable bugs. Vikings plans to change that."

You won't change that with Libre Software : as long as your mobile / computer / server is connected to the internet it is hackable no matter what. Libre Software is not exempt of exploitable bugs, there's a lot of non libre parts in hardware etc and someone from the team could be subverted to insert a backdoor.

Basically they're bringing wooden shields to the fight when the NSA is shooting enriched uranium shells from Big Bertha !

Their goal is noble but they shouldn't let people believe that their data will be totally secure on these servers.

[legulere]

I think this axiom is pretty common in the Free Software field: Free Software tackles exactly the issues that are important

So when something is deemed an important issue, by the axiom it is solved through free software.

In reality most issues are orthogonal to licensing (using a cloud or not, encryption, ...) and in some classical free software performs arguably even worse (usability)