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by BiteCode_dev 152 days ago
This is a good thing and a required first step, but it's a drop in the sea.

All MacOS, iOS, Windows and Android are all produced by the USA. Virtually all chips as well.

It is foolish to assume there are not backdoors in every one of them.

Meaning we should assume the USA can shut down the entire Europe's IT if they really want to.

Then you got the authentication systems, security software (antivirus, proxies like cloudflare, crowdstrike and so on), the various Saas (docs editors, drives, ticket systems, chats...), the payment systems (including Visa and swift, but also Paypal, google pay, stripe, etc), the software stores, the root DNS, the SSL root certificates and a ton of network hardware.

Given the current political situation, it's a very bad spot to be in.