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It's hard to believe this happened. South Korea has tech giants like Samsung, and yet this is how the government runs? Is the US government any better?
by MangoCoffee 1y ago
It's hard to believe this happened. South Korea has tech giants like Samsung, and yet this is how the government runs? Is the US government any better?
- userbinator 1y agoThe US government still relies heavily on physical records.
- nebula8804 1y agoDidn't Elon shut that down? [0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/13/company-ripped-by-elon-musk-that-stores-government-records-in-a-mine-may-actually-get-a-boost-from-doge.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/13/company-ripped-by-elon-musk-...
- AshamedCaptain 1y agoWhy is there a "still" in there?
- ashirviskas 1y agoSouth Korean IT seemed to be stuck in 2007 just not too long ago, would be surprised if it has changed much in the last few years. Do the websites still require you to use internet explorer?
- r_lee 1y agoSoftware and information technology in Korea just sucks. buttons are jpegs/gifs, everything is on Java EE and on vulnerable old webservers etc... A lot of government stuff supports only Internet Explorer even though it's long dead
- creakingstairs 1y agoRemember Log4j vulnerability? A lot of the Korea governmental sites weren't affected because the Java version was too old :) Don't even get me started on ActiveX.
- carrychains 1y agoThe first thing that comes to mind when I think of the South Korean government is the storied tradition of physical confrontation in their parliament along with more than a few viral videos of brawls and such over the years. It used to be better in the US, but with the intensity of discord in our government lately, I don't think anyone really knows anymore.
- _t9ow 1y ago> The first thing that comes to mind when I think of the South Korean government is the storied tradition of physical confrontation in their parliament along with more than a few viral videos of brawls and such over the years You're thinking of Taiwan, not South Korea.
- creakingstairs 1y agoNo South Korea has the same thing. It doesn't happen yearly but has happened quite a bit. We lovingly call it parliament siege raid. https://m.blog.naver.com/gard7251/221339784832 https://m.blog.naver.com/gard7251/221339784832 (a random blog with gifs)
- zaptheimpaler 1y agoIf only our politicians were young and agile enough to get into brawls.. their speed seems to be more sleeping on the job while democracy crumbles.
- logicchains 1y agoSamsung's software is generally terrible; they're decent at hardware, not software.
- 3eb7988a1663 1y agoI was going to say, Samsung anything immediately makes me assume the software is awful. With a dose of zero privacy, cloud enabled door-knob or something.
- greenavocado 1y agoThe hardware is highly engineered to fail at a specific time window after the warranty is over.
- moduspol 1y agoOur incompetence in the US is much more distributed. It wouldn't surprise me if the same kind of data isn't backed up, but at least it's dozens of separate federal agencies not-backing up their data in different physical places.
- foofoo12 1y agoWell, Elon has a recent copy of everything at least.
- jml78 1y agoYes. The US government requires offsite backups . They also require routine testing distaster recovery plans. I participated in so many different programs over the years with those tests. Tests that would roll over to facilities across the country