• Re: Government databases

    From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to ANDREA on Tue Nov 30 16:33:00 2021
    Stuff like this gives me goosebumps. I don't know if goverments have a special
    ucket of trash syops, devs and security experts for hire when they have to dev
    op something for the public that needs to be secure. It's like magic; Some cou
    hoses here still have old public ftp servers with documents trown around (some
    ven recent) containing sensitive stuff like transcipts of private conversation
    and so on. Sad stuff.

    Governments often have to bid out their work, and the winning bidder is
    often (although not always) the cheapest one. If they award something to a bidder that is not the cheapest, the cheapest (who isn't supposed to know
    they are but, from past experience, will know they are) will often protest, which winds up costing the government money.

    So, they wind up getting what they pay for sometimes... light security on public facing servers.


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