Such a misnomer. Europe has cables to the far east which don't transit the USA, and cloud service providers exist which are not dependant on Google and Amazon.
The US has always been capable of enormously disruptive influence on the internet. Make wise choices of dependency.
I hesitate to bring this to the table. But is what Russia did to test internal systems resiliency under isolation not at the very least wise, for any economy?
The root trust of the dns, that's embedded in HSM solely in the USA, one east coast. One west. That's a structural weakness, but the people to ask about it are ICANN who have offices in Geneva and Singapore. Additional HSM could be run. Verisign would have problems here as would almost all the icann staff unfortunately. Systems resiliency demands many extra costs like non us staffing.
Rpki is somewhat devolved already, however all the rir have risks having to observe mandated excluded economies under interdiction.
Such a misnomer. Europe has cables to the far east which don't transit the USA, and cloud service providers exist which are not dependant on Google and Amazon.
The US has always been capable of enormously disruptive influence on the internet. Make wise choices of dependency.
I hesitate to bring this to the table. But is what Russia did to test internal systems resiliency under isolation not at the very least wise, for any economy?
The root trust of the dns, that's embedded in HSM solely in the USA, one east coast. One west. That's a structural weakness, but the people to ask about it are ICANN who have offices in Geneva and Singapore. Additional HSM could be run. Verisign would have problems here as would almost all the icann staff unfortunately. Systems resiliency demands many extra costs like non us staffing.
Rpki is somewhat devolved already, however all the rir have risks having to observe mandated excluded economies under interdiction.
> Pull the plug on the internet
Article proceeds to talk about how he could disable Google and Microsoft for Europe.
Choose the right tech folks, no reason to depend on the US:
https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to
> the (...) vulnerability is Europe’s near-total dependency on U.S. cloud providers.
Well honestly that would be bad, but not "pull the plug" bad
Europe used to be a bystander to China, but now Europe has become the new China