“Email is a minuscule text file that you transmit across the internet. To claim that you don’t have the competence to arrange that yourself is a sign of administrative incompetence”, said Michiel Leenaars, NLnet's Director of Strategy in an interview on Radio 1 (In Dutch). He responded to a recent report of the thinktank Clingendael Institute which warns that the Dutch government has squandered cloud sovereignty by outsourcing storing vital and sensitive information to American providers.