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HK Gov email system to be built by Shenzhen company

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    HK Gov email system to be built by Shenzhen company

    https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/05/0...rity-concerns/
    The government has awarded a HK$237 million contract to a Shenzhen company to build, support and maintain a new centralised email system for 22 bureaus and departments. The announcement raised security concerns despite the government saying that the contractor will not be able to access user data.

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    With an automatic CC to China I guess

    https://qz.com/1192493/china-spied-o...or-five-years/


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    The OGCIO / ITSD or whatever it was and will be called, have had a long history of picking local / major international vendors.

    Many large governments have chosen to go with specialised cloud-y setups from vendors like Google / Amazon.

    Wonder what secret sauce the Shenzhen company has which made it competitive to all the combinations of non-china-based and local vendor offerings.

    It is laughable at best to think that the authorities from "that side" are unable to get what they want.
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    XX% of all web sites and YY% of all email users in the world are on Google/AWS infrastructure. Who knows what these two companies do with the data. But if Larry Page wants to know everything there is to know about me, he can. My only salvation is my utter insignificance


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    JEDI, however, represents a massive jump in size and scale. The contract could be worth as much as $10 billion over 10 years, with Defense officials describing it as a “global fabric” available to warfighters in almost any environment, from F-35s to war zones. Because government customers could use the cloud for almost anything, it must be built to host almost everything, Steven Aftergood, head of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy, told Nextgov.
    In completely unrelated news, Google has pulled out of JEDI.

    "We are not bidding on the JEDI contract because first, we couldn't be assured that it would align with our AI Principles," a Google spokesman said in a statement. "And second, we determined that there were portions of the contract that were out of scope with our current government certifications."

    The spokesman added that Google is "working to support the U.S. government with our cloud in many ways." "Had the JEDI contract been open to multiple vendors, we would have submitted a compelling solution for portions of it," they said. "Google Cloud believes that a multi-cloud approach is in the best interest of government agencies, because it allows them to choose the right cloud for the right workload."