MMmmm, I understand the sentiment. But I think you'll find that's not true. The Oracle database, alone, has a long history of engineering behind it that has not truly been replicated by other products. Of course, this is really only relevant for corner cases, but these exist, and they're usually folks who have big budgets (like governments, or large enterprises). And at that level, what they're paying for is not the technology as-shipped, but the support ... which means you have a "throat to choke" in terms of lawsuits, but could also mean building something that's proprietary for your business.

Simple: They tried and it failed. Again. sure, as an end-goal it is valid and eventually it will work. But not anytime soon. Computers are not magic.

I mean, this could be used to see things about the non-existent climate change, right? It must be banned! Or maybe put 100% tariffs on every byte of data!

Indeed. The Chinese also know that publishing a story about a found backdoor in their software would be a great exploit for the US and hence they know that the US is looking. Strangely, nothing has been found so far. Or rather very obviously, nothing has been found and the whole thing is nothing but lies.

And no, that is not "socialist" or "China loving". This is what is called a "fact". Obviously the MAGA cretins do not know what that is.

And as soon as you are, expect to get fleeced.

And yet, US citizens are in prisons around the world for violating local laws. I guess that little detail is too complex for you to understand.

And in other news that oh-so-mighty US military just got defeated by Iran. Even if the Dumb one (who you apparently pray to) claims differently. BTW, have fun wen the US strategic oil reserves run out in the near future.

Always the same stupid and invalid comparison. Here is one that is actually valid: We do require banks to have secure vaults and if a bank were to store the valuables of its customers, say, in cardboard boxes in an unsecured office, of course the bank would be punished

That is why I wrote "the employees may care" and NOT "Trump may care"...

The way to do this is to finally start taking IT security seriously. The EU has started with the CRA and the GDPR (and to a lesser degree the DSA). The US seems to be moving backwards at the moment.

But this is the only way. When a bridge or a building collapses, they find who screwed up and that has real, sometimes personal consequences. If Azure gets hacked or is completely open to attackers (again), nothing happens to anybody. That has to stop.

Did get pirates handed anyways, maybe a bit more quietly.

The employees may care if they basically cannot travel internationally anymore. If they are smart enough to understand they have no protection against the law abroad.

Also note that when (not if) they hack the wrong target, these people become criminals. That is a primary reason why warfare and offensive intelligence operations never get handed to the private sector.

Obviously, "Hacking back" is abysmally stupid as well, because everybody uses hacked machines belonging to other people as proxies, often long chains of them. Hence it is pretty much impossible to not do massive collateral damage. And as to the changes of success? Well. How many of these attackers have been identified so far and how many are in prison? Wight, basically a tiny number. Because this approach does not work.

You are a dumb American that thinks everybody is always after money. NO. European privacy laws are something you are probably completely unfamiliar with: Laws that protect citizens. The financial penalties are not a revenue mechanism.

Hidden recording and then posting that on social media without consent can land you in prison in Germany. Now, component (!) sales are legal, but making a "covert surveillance device" is not. Even possession is illegal.

I think I will pass.