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2019-11-16 Government

Amazon charges ‘bias’ in Pentagon cloud contract

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Posted by 3dc 2019-11-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 all military branches sharing information in a system boosted by artificial intelligence

And when Chinese hack the system?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-16 01:54|| 2019-11-16 01:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Better the chinese have to go to the effort of hacking it.

Bezos would probably give antifa sys-admin rights.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-16 06:05|| 2019-11-16 06:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Couldn't pass the security background checks anyways. Too much stuff already made in China.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-11-16 07:09|| 2019-11-16 07:09|| Front Page Top

#4 And when Chinese hack the system?

It's Microsoft.
They built it.
Don't have to hack it.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-11-16 09:03|| 2019-11-16 09:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Oligarchs 'R' Us.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-16 09:08|| 2019-11-16 09:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Hobson's choice.

Posted by charger 2019-11-16 14:32|| 2019-11-16 14:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Microsoft are more professional than any slacks and spectacles bunch of techno yuppies out there. For decades they've produced reliable, feasible software solutions and support to most govts the world over.

Amazon is run by lickspittle political hacks, it could be populated by an unknown number of unhinged elements from the left. What happens when a 'concerned' systems admin goes woke and halts a critical launch, throws a spanner into target acquisition networks, if someone from the company holds the network to ransom over secret info, leaks info to the MSM...

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-16 15:43|| 2019-11-16 15:43|| Front Page Top

#8 An unmentioned part of all this is that Amazon is currently under investigation for various anti-trust violations, while Microsoft is not... at least not anymore. The federal government could easily have chosen not to place a bid with a company whose activities are under active investigation.

Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2019-11-16 17:37|| 2019-11-16 17:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Amazon's business model is based on illegal predatory pricing.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-16 17:39|| 2019-11-16 17:39|| Front Page Top

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