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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lidl and Kaufland should be avoided.

https://gruppe.schwarz/en/press/archive/2021/schwarz-group-acquires-israeli-hybrid-cloud-cybersecurity-innovator-xm-cyber

From the Hebrew Wikipedia article:

https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A7%D7%A1_%D7%90%D7%9D_%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%99%D7%91%D7%A8

The company's product runs on Amazon's AWS cloud, and similar products are in development for Microsoft Azure and Google's GCP environment.[2]

Aside from running deeply integrated into US cloud providers, it is reasonable to assume for Israeli cybersecurity companies that they have links to Israeli and US intelligence. And the CEO Noam Erez is advertised as "he spent 25 years with the Israeli intelligence community" https://xmcyber.com/team/noam-erez/

So buying at Lidl helps Trump and Netanyahu.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Blimey. Aldi it is.