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Why is everyone so shocked? Has anyone ever talked to a friend that works for the Federal govt.? They are well known to be completely incompetent when it come
by TheMagicHorsey 11y ago
Why is everyone so shocked? Has anyone ever talked to a friend that works for the Federal govt.? They are well known to be completely incompetent when it comes to technology. Even the DoD, which gets billions of dollars for cyber defense, often doesn't do things right.
How can you expect the Fed. Govt. to handle things competently when some of the best paid private contractors F' things up too. Security is hard.
What IS a bit surprising is not the fact that they were hacked, but that they actually found out they were hacked. From what I understand, the Fed. Govt. has lost even more important data (like designs for weapon systems), and not even realized it till like years later when the technology shows up in foreign weapons.
- narrator 11y agoMaybe some parts of the government aren't competent but the NSA is pretty good at what they do.
- DennisP 11y agoPretty good at the surveillance side, but evidently not so good at their other mandate, which is to help the rest of the government secure their stuff.
- kalleboo 11y agoEven the NSA isn't perfect though. Don't forget that Snowden managed to steal hundreds of thousands of documents, and the NSA doesn't even know exactly WHAT he got or not...
- icebraining 11y agothe NSA doesn't even know exactly WHAT he got or not... Or so they say.
- miguelrochefort 11y ago> Security is hard. Security is impossible.
- a3n 11y ago> Even the DoD, which gets billions of dollars for cyber defense, often doesn't do things right. They're paying Microsoft millions to support XP right now. They had some warning long ago about XP's EOL. I mean, really.