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Also an attack vector: https://www.cyberscoop.com/cri...

Microsoft software is so bad at security that it is individually the reason for the existence of most anti-malware products. I don't see how this move helps anyone.

The breaches on AWS have been, for the most part, the failure of users to actually configure the security correctly, if at all. Plenty of stories of failure to secure S3 buckets full of sensitive documents. More troubling, was the hazard of using systems that you don't control, as evidenced by the AWS East-1 outage in March of this year. . . .

Since Mr Putin has ordered that all Russian government systems, at least, should be moved off American software as soon as possible, I don't think your second scenario is at all likely.

"Amid U.S. effort to exclude Kaspersky, Putin backs plan to force out foreign software"
https://www.cyberscoop.com/rus...

And there is no need to worry that the stupid Russians won't be able to provide their own software:

"In a study of hundreds of thousands of programmers, China and Russia were found to produce the best software developers"
https://www.sott.net/article/3...

There are gradations in privacy. The fact that I'm ok with having some small portion of my data used by corporations whose services I utilize does not mean that I'm ok with massive violation of privacy without any notice at all by some other corporation.

What the Blu phone does is way over the line. They are not only secretly sending data to China, they have "a command-and-control channel that can execute code on a user’s phone as a system user."

This is not merely "spyware"-- this is actual spying, by a foreign power.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/researchers-find-phones-secretly-sending-data-china/

You're too slow..... That's already happened. From that link:

"The sheer number of computers infected with DOUBLEPULSAR is likely the work of amateurish hackers, experts said. ... The chances are none that all theses hosts [were hacked by] the NSA. It is effectively trivial to go compromise all these hosts with the flick of a wrist."

https://www.cyberscoop.com/nsa...