It doesn’t matter. If the FSB knocks on their door and says “add this extra code to your builds or you’ll disappear into the basement of the Lubyanka”, what do you think they’ll say?
In fairness to Salesforce, it was the garbage third party apps in their ecosystem which got compromised and did the leaking, not Salesforce themselves.
> Maintaining one server room in the headquarters is something, but two servers rooms in different locations, with resilient power and network is a bit too much effort IMHO.
Speaking as someone who does this, it is very straightforward. You can rent space from people like Equinix or Global Switch for very reasonable prices. They then take care of power, cooling, cabling plant etc.
PwC are a well known band of crooks who always put their own enrichment well ahead of the public interest.
They were banned entirely from bidding for Australian federal government contracts, because they misused privileged information on tax policy they received from one client (the government) to advise other clients on tax avoidance strategies. It was a symptom of systemic corruption that permeates their entire business.
> The network's design has several flaws, most importantly no way for any central authority to completely delete posts (admins in moderated groups can only approve posts),
> Do I have to go through the polygraph test to join CSIS?
> Yes. All CSIS employees must obtain a Top Secret security clearance and the polygraph is a mandatory part of the process.
Seems to be the same for CSE and to get "Enhanced Top Secret" clearance.
Back to the US, the Department of Labor says that private employers can't force people to undergo a polygraph test: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/polygraph
But of course this does not apply to public sector jobs, where it's used more pervasively.
The US already provides publicly accessible conjunction avoidance data based on data points they have. They don't have the same number of satellites in the sky to make real time observations in as many different directions though.
> so, these systems should have existed for decades now.
Dubious. Perhaps if Congress could be persuaded to invest in tons of radio telescopes / radars, positioned all around the world, but good luck with that. The space-based approach used by SpaceX is something that presently only SpaceX is equipped to implement. Tracking star conjunctions only gives you high quality data on space debris / satellite maneuvers if you have a huge net of star trackers in orbit, and that's something which only SpaceX has been able to do.
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