Costs are probably negotiated but per 1,000 employees, most businesses will be paying somewhere between £500,000 and £1,500,000 each year just for Microsoft 365. So I’d estimate the UK civil service at a similar sum £450-500m per year for desktop services. Thats before any Azure or AWS costs

For 27 EU member states, an assumption of €10B / year leaving the EU and going into the us tech giant economy doesnt seem crazy.

So the scare tactic €115b is over 5-6 years. While it would take 10-12 years to save that from fees paid by the central government services alone. Thats a 50% offset immediately on top of the advantages of keeping those vast sums within the EU economic zone. I reckon local authorities and other public services across the wider public sector could offset the other 50%

How long would it take Europe to save €115B in microslop ransom… sorry i mean microsoft subscription charges?

Sadly 4 of those companies are American, and Dashlane has significant US operation presence, making those recommendations unacceptable to me - ymmv

1password is Canadian and zero-knowledge so could be an option if i didnt already use a different service.

I dont like the idea of pre-authorising a device to handle credentials and access in perpetuity at the hardware level. I’d be fine with having a hardware key that holds passkeys but cant use them, while the device using them can only do so when i put the two items together. Unfortunately i do not understand how to save a passkey to a hardware key or how to manage them once that is done. Till someone gives me a straightforward ux to do that, i’ll be using unique passwords, a manager, and totp.

If i am misunderstanding, thats just a different problem; the passkey thing needs to be explained more clearly.

Because if there isn’t a report, there wasnt a crime, right?

See I bought a couple of yubikeys, but have zero passkeys becuase I’ve yet to encounter any service that lets me choose to store their passkey on said yubikeys. How do you do it?

Seems to me that if I could tie them to yubikeys (ideally on two keys), remote attestation wouldn’t risk me allowing any third party to assert influence or control over my choices of technology - is that right?

Amazon is probably the most visible example of trying to create passkeys all the damn time, but it never offers any user choice about where this passkey would be (my best guess is that its on the computer and tied somehow to my login). I’d happily use passkeys with yubikey, but I’m not willing to set up a different passkey on each computing device I use. Thatś a housekeeping/maintenance headache I dont want or need and it would be made all but impossible if I give up visibility and control over what devices are ‘authorised’ and how.
I hate to think how many people have inadvertently set up passkeys on devices that they rarely use.

Hopefully this bullshit tactic moves us closer to a post american internet and corporate action to reduce reliance on US tech

US tech has been thinly disguised spware for a long time, now I think we can upgrade that to ransomware.

Chinese ev bus behaves like every John Deere tractor, Tesla, amazon ring doorbell, windows pc, mac, smart tv, iphone and android device , and probably every other car made since 2020.

“But China bad” is getting pretty old and frail in comparison to the domestic and international predations and privacy invasions of US tech businesses and government