Data Centre Level
Compute facilities need to be installed in Canada, managed by Canadians, run by Canadian software (where possible), powered by Canadian electricity. Any Canada-wide >>cloud<< should have a SINGLE firewall controlling all traffic into and out of Canada, or a separate firewall processing independantly packets for each category of
* Adversarial Nations (aka China, Russia, Iran)* Friendly Nations (EU, UK, etc.)* Status Under Review (of promotion or demotion) (U.S., Israel, etc.)
Hardware Level
Since Canada >>had<< fab capability for chips, with each of Nortel, Newbridge, SR Telecom, JDS Uniphase, etc. don't we have capability in Canada to quickly deploy a factory for RISC-V based chipsets to build our own computers?
If not, couldn't Canada come up with its own computer chipset and work thru Infineon Technologies (German) to produce a chipset that would eliminate the reliance on US based tech?
My two cents worth.
Eric Marceau, Ottawa
On Saturday, October 17, 2026 at 09:32:15 AM EDT, Dianne Skoll via linux <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> wrote:
On Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:57:06 -0400
jfmessier [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com wrote:
> However, if the software is from a foreign company, they may be able
> to remotely control the software (closed source, remember ???) to
> access your content. And with software updated over the internet,
> like Microsoft 365, they can do all kinds of things with your
> data...........................
Yes, sure. But all modern Intel and AMD processors contains a separate
management engine that is always running, whose firmware is
closed-source and that can have complete control over your hardware,
so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(I hope, since it seems the data centre will be used by CSE, that the
servers will be running Linux...)
Regards,
Dianne.
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