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the one thing I can conclude from reading this.... is the secret service needs a serious technology upgrade
by thezach 13y ago
the one thing I can conclude from reading this.... is the secret service needs a serious technology upgrade
- dev1n 13y agoOr at the very least someone who can accurately place a piece of paper on a photo copier.
- jrockway 13y agoIf you're good at placing a piece of paper on a photocopier, don't you think you can find a better job than placing pieces of paper on a photocopier?
- luciusism 13y agoIn other words, the Peter Principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
- rhizome 13y agoI'm sure a lot of it works fine within the agencies, it's just the translation process to "muggle" where the problems coincidentally appear.
- saucetenuto 13y agoI've heard that that actually varies a lot; sometimes you're working with the world's biggest data center, sometimes it's 30 guys with a building full of cabinets and a single TRS-80 in a closet.
- anigbrowl 13y agoBudgets are tight, FOIA compliance is way down the list. Congress likes keeping the executive branch on short rations, and legal stuff like this is a cost center.
- alan_cx 13y agoIf they were asked to supply the White House with photocopies of non controversial documents, would the photocopies look like that? I'm, (perhaps wrongly) assuming not. So to me, it hints at a level of contempt for having to comply. In other words, doing a slap dash crappy job because doing it annoys the person tasked with it or authorizing it. Like a kid who is told to clean it's bedroom and then doing it sloppily because it doesn't want to do it.