With Silicon Valley and other big tech companies seeming to mostly be choosing Ukraine over Russia in their recently-started war, nation-states of the world are learning lessons that might not be the kind Silicon Valley would like them to learn.
Tech is making it known that neutrality in war is not something nation states can count on tech for sustaining. In the Ukraine War, Silicon Valley is finding itself choosing to block this agent but not that agent, is choosing to take this government on as a client but not this government.
All of the nation-states of the world are paying close attention to what tech can do, in general, to affect the outcome of war, but also, they are paying close attention to the type of power tech can have in impeding your nation-states war efforts should you find yourself outside the club.
These actions by tech, or Silicon Valley in large part, but hardly exclusively, are sending signals to nation states that will continue to accelerate the process of the nationalization of social media and the internet in general. The cost for relying on obs (one big system) solutions is a potential loss of sovereignty as a nation-state altogether should the enemy that is invading you is in with the Silicon Valley crowd.
Tech Companies Help Defend Ukraine Against Cyberattacks
From www.nytimes.com
2022-03-01 00:50:58
Excerpt:
WASHINGTON — Last Wednesday, a few hours before Russian tanks began rolling into Ukraine, alarms went off inside Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center, warning of a never-before-seen piece of “wiper” malware that appeared aimed at the country’s government ministries and financial institutions.
Within three hours, Microsoft threw itself into the middle of a ground war in Europe — from 5,500 miles away. The threat center, north of Seattle, had been on high alert, and it quickly picked apart the malware, named it “FoxBlade” and notified Ukraine’s top cyberdefense authority. Within three hours, Microsoft’s virus detection systems had been updated to block the code, which erases — “wipes” — data on computers in a network.
Then Tom Burt, the senior Microsoft executive who oversees the company’s effort to counter major cyberattacks, contacted Anne Neuberger, the White House’s deputy national security adviser for cyber- and emerging technologies. Ms….
