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Is it sad that because I have worked on government systems in the past that this does not surprise me at all? It makes me mad, but it is not at all surprising.
by bargl 11y ago
Is it sad that because I have worked on government systems in the past that this does not surprise me at all?
It makes me mad, but it is not at all surprising. The negligence on government software is crazy. That is on top of the regulations that basically don't allow developers to use new/open source technology.
While new technologies wouldn't have prevented this by themselves, they might have made it easier to encrypt data so the devs would have said, "oh yeah we can do that". Or they might have had defaults that prevent simple things like cross site scripting.
- __john 11y agoSpot on, most software gets disapproved simply for being open source or liberally licensed. Although recently I've found that it's easier to get open source software on my computer if I can prove that it already exists somewhere else on our network (i.e. we use Redhat servers which come with Python pre-installed after I pointed that out getting Python on my personal box wasn't much of an issue)