RE: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116435

Personally I mostly tried shifting to "digital agency" ("digitale Handlungsfähigkeit" in German) because it talks about what it's about rather than pointing at the "evil other"

@tante I'm in favour of it irrespective of the label. I strongly recommend the application of the principle to the full stack from the raw materials up. Backdoors have been at minimum suspected at the level of CPU, device, mainboard etc. & other hardware. Firmware & operating system kernel code is also suspect esp. insofar as it's closed source but by no means limited to it. The EU has the EUV lithography machine manufacturer; it could use it for the sake of getting the berserk USA comprehensively out of its computing stack, though it might carry a price premium.

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@nyc @tante apparently, ASML and TSMC were bootstrapped by Philips, with their money and their lithography. Philips divested its stake after a few years. Europe seems to have voluntarily outsourced manufacturing to China and tech to the US.

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