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What I often wonder when reading things like this is how on earth does this gets approved in budgets. Education districts surely don't have money to burn and wh
by tweetle_beetle 5y ago
What I often wonder when reading things like this is how on earth does this gets approved in budgets. Education districts surely don't have money to burn and why would security be given extra money for something new?
Do these providers subsidise costs to normalise the use of their products in a sector, does the bogeyman of school shootings get rolled out for an easy sign off, or a bit of both?
- alkonaut 5y agoIf I sold this tech, I'd sell it at a loss or give it away for free to a few users, then make some paid astroturfing in neighboring districts with complaints that "security is better at school X that has installed system Y" and after that I'd expect orders from everyone.
- EMM_386 5y agoThey are using tactics that make it difficult to say no, such as pitching this as something that can prevent school shootings. It's absurd but once you say "this can prevent a school shooting", who can say no to that?