Begin forwarded message: From: Gene Spafford <spaf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: December 8, 2004 1:36:46 PM EST To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: Ip <ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Subject: Re: [IP] more on Fiscal 2005 spending bill addresses privacy issues
At 4:43 AM -0500 12/8/04, David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message: From: Bob Rosenberg <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: December 7, 2004 9:20:24 PM EST To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Fiscal 2005 spending bill addresses privacy issues Dave[from the final paragraph] "The bill also would waive "Buy America" provisionsrequiring federal IT purchases to include U.S.-made content...."Am I the only one who wonders how the Gummint will protect itself/us from some"bad guy" furr'ner who would put rogue code into those IT purchses?
No, you are not the only one. Several of us outside of government have been warning of this for years, and many inside also raise the issue repeatedly. We are seeing cost trump reason. That the government can get software or hardware for 2/3 the cost matters more to the bureaucrats than who had a hand in making it. As a result, way too many critical applications are being hosted on platforms configured, designed, and built by people who would never be allowed into the facilities where those platforms are used! And let's not even go on to outsourced maintenance and help desk functionality.
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