Hi everyone,
Two new posts, one about “European Cloud Modules”, an idea I first mentioned in the post “A coherent European/non-US cloud strategy: building railroads for the cloud economy”:
“The idea outlined above is to create a portfolio of cloud-service-ready software that lots of companies could then turn into great cloud services, based on existing hardware/storage/network capabilities. If we help create gold standard open source software for the most important cloud service, like key-value stores, S3-like services, AWS Cognito customer IAM (or IAM in general), we deliver a fertile landscape on which service companies could grow.”
On this new post, I zoom in on what these European Could Modules could look like. And incidentally, I outline that the European hosting sector had better come on board with this idea, because otherwise they will sink into irrelevance. Do read on in “European Cloud Modules”.
Secondly, the European Union is attempting to to square the circle of privacy versus police access to our data. I’ve previously presented on this over at the European Parliament (5 years ago). Now, the European Commission asks for people to join an expert group to weigh in on the issues, including if you can somehow do both end-to-end encryption AND police access. In “Possible End to End to End Encryption: Come Help” I talk a bit about the challenge, and urge knowledgeable people to apply to join this commission.
Signing off with apologies for spamming you twice within a few days, but I hope you find these messages to be worth your while!
Bert