A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. This means that the CEO, CTO, and all management down the chain failed to create any kind of robustly secure sys

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. This means that the CEO, CTO, and all management down the chain failed to create any kind of robustly secure system. Their entire system was never more than a single password leak away from complete failure for the security of the entire USG. With literally thousands of opportunities for such leaks per day, it is inevitable. So, a system must be designed such that when the inevitable occurs, the consequences are minimal. The most basic of fail-safe designs. These people, from the CEO on down, utterly failed to do this. Yet they made millions from false claims to have succeeded in creating a secure system, when they created a highway for global espionage. They literally could not have provided our adversaries a better avenue for espionage if they tried. The free world would literally be better off if all of that company and it's management had never existed. Meanwhile, as a small manufacturer who has some govt-related work, the blizzard of new security certification requirements for Controlled Militarily Critical Technical Data and the like coming down the pike is like nothing I've ever seen before. Sure, some of it is due to increased threats, but much of it is definitely because of a*$holes like those CxOs who so utterly and deliberately failed in their most basic duties, and should never work in the industry again.