Interesting and worrisome views of the European public digital infrastructure

Digital sovereignty is currently the order of the day. It seems European leaders suddenly opened their eyes and realized they were living in a fairy tale. Many practitioners and organizations have been alerting to this need for years (decades?). They were ignored. Nevertheless, this is not the topic of this post, even though it could help us visualize the extent of our dependency. Recently I became aware of a few very interesting projects that map the providers and security settings of the digital infrastructure of many public institutions. We have the maps of the email providers: https://mxmap.pt https://mxmairies.fr/ https://mxmap.be/ https://mxmap.nl/ And many others can be found in the original project readme file. The overall picture is not good (pretty bleak, actually) for something that should already be a “commodity.” From the countries I was able to take a look at, Portugal is not one of the worst, still far from the one in better shape (France) but not the worst. However, in…