It's not the most sophisticated, thats a bad usage of terms, however, it is most likely one of the largest of it's type and severity just on pure scale. My tak

It's not the most sophisticated, thats a bad usage of terms, however, it is most likely one of the largest of it's type and severity just on pure scale. My take is that this is mostly on the heads of all the many gov orgs (I'm ignoring corporate land right now), who have become so dominated by gui-ninjas with stockholm syndrome for MS and other black-box closed source systems that they honestly just don't think about the underlying system fundamentals at all. Not only have I contracted and seen some of these systems first hand (and the bad management that engineers them), but I have a family member is is the head of IT for a state gov org, and I've heard about how lackluster the response has been internally. There is just a response to update systems. No fundamental reconsideration of sourcing practices, no fundamental reconsideration of security practices, just lazy hope that it doesn't affect them. I highly suspect most of these orgs are completely compromised already on the tech side (and other ways too, cough Epstein cough), and because of lack of accountability, nobody really gives a fuck. Then at the very high levels at the federal level, those "leaders" don't care because they are playing the classic good ol boy backscratching contract and bid game, and they get their cut, so they could care less that a few years down the road something like all of OPM is compromised. Congress, the one entity that should be in a position to start passing legislation to address these issues, is instead completely compromised on both sides of the isle by the same kind of realpolitik, where K-street writes the legislation along with a few staffers they will hire later for their "help", congresspeople don't even read the bills, but vote according to donation dollars and influence gained. The whole system is completely disconnected from reality, and the number one thing that is lacking is the largest four letter word in DC or in any government org... Accountability.