After nearly two years as a Critical Environment Technician at a Microsoft Italy data center, I choose to resign. This is because, right now, Microsoft is massively expanding its European data centers (aka mass surveillance centers) to use Palestine as a laboratory for its experimental digital weaponry. For the past 994 days, Microsoft has powered the genocide of our people in Palestine, and the company’s European data centers are fundamental to how Microsoft abets crimes against humanity.
He later continued:
On August 6, 2025, reports exposed how Microsoft hosted 11,500 terabytes of intercepted Palestinian phone call data in the Microsoft Netherlands data center, with additional data stored in the Irish data center, amounting to 200 million hours of audio. This trove of mass surveillance data has been described as “one of the world’s largest and most intrusive collections of surveillance data over a single population group.”
This data is used by the Israeli military to identify targets for airstrikes, arrests, and blackmail from the entire Palestinian population. It is also used as training data to build AI-targeting programs. These programs invent arbitrary justifications to murder non-combatants, intentionally adding civilian workers to the Israeli military’s generated “target bank“; the programs also facilitate massacres of entire families at once.
Nour went on to highlight Microsoft’s pseudo-investigation of the above, amounting to a whitewash. He said Microsoft colluded with the terror regime in Tel Aviv to shift the data off Dutch servers and into Occupied Palestine, sometimes incorrectly referred to as ‘Israel’.
What ever happened to sabotage? Now it’s always a strongly worded letter followed by a resignation
Dunno how they work but isn’t it possible people did and we don’t know yet?
Unlikely
Companies—especially “big tech” companies—have made it pretty difficult to sabotage things without getting caught. They spy on absolutely fucking everything you do, including all of your browser traffic (e.g. ZScaler, which most of these companies now use on corporate-issued machines, inserts a fake root certificate and tells your browser to trust it, so that they can do a man-in-the-middle attack to decrypt literally all of your web traffic). The IT departments often lock things down to the point where you can’t install tools or even run VMs/containers in any context where it would help. You get access to NOTHING without your “single-sign on” account, which tells them exactly who you are when you commit changes to code, write documentation, comment on an issue, submit a design, etc. And physical security is similar (cameras everywhere, RFID badge required to access labs, supplies, etc.)
Capitalists know who their enemies are, and their own (wage) slaves are at or near the top of the list.
Not saying it’s impossible, but DAMN do they make it difficult. Individually you’re probably just fucked. And by the time you have enough co-conspirators to do anything at all effective, you probably have a pretty powerful and effective union anyway (not that it’s happening) and can get away with even more than simple sabotage.
