Welcome to the on-going privatization of government services, and the plan to have all of .gov outsourced and privately hosted, and with the registration proces

Welcome to the on-going privatization of government services, and the plan to have all of .gov outsourced and privately hosted, and with the registration processing services having been bid out and presently hosted by Cyberdyne Systems domain registration services. As part of this, Cyberdyne Systems will be running .gov-wide grid services in the background on the .gov hosts, so please ignore the skynetd daemon that will now be running on your servers. But seriously, this is how outsourcing and privatization works. It's how Xe Services is an extension of the military, how Corrections Corporation of America runs private prisons, the Kelo case in Connecticut, the 1% claims settlement between BofA and Fannie Mae, and other cases of privatization. The government does what the population and the corporations ask of it, and the private entities then provide the rest of the services on behalf of the government; it's how government itself gets outsourced. And yes, government-outsourcing makes following the accounting and the budgets far more difficult. You just don't easily know how big a military effort might be without finding those other line items in those other budgets, for instance. Or when some private entity effectively holds the keys to some large tract of government services or security.