seriously government

China embeds surveillance chips on Amazon/Apple server motherboards and we store our most confidential data on their servers. Seriously?

https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2017/09/amazon-web-services-can-now-host-defense-departments-most-sensitive-data/140973/

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/04/chinese-spy-chips-are-said-to-be-found-in-hardware-used-by-apple-amazon-apple-denies-the-bloomberg-businessweek-report.html

and yet we wonder why there is so much hacking and theft. why is any confidential data even allowed to be stored on a public network anyways? and on servers with questionable hardware? unbelievable. #stupidgovernmentofficials #wehavethedumbestofficials