Comment by franga2000

Encryption only makes sense if "the cloud" is just a data storage bucket to you. If you run applications in the cloud, you can't have all the data encrypted, especially not all the time. There are some technologies that make this possible, but none are mature enough to run even a small business, let alone a country on.

It sounds technologically illiterate to you because when people say "we can't safely use a foreign cloud" you think they're saying "to store data" and everyone else is thinking at the very least "to store and process data".

Sure, they could have used a cloud provider for encrypted backups, but if they knew how to do proper backups, they wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.