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ProPublica
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NEW: Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway. A program created to protect the government against cyber threats authorized a sprawling Microsoft cloud product, despite the company’s inability to fully explain how it protects sensitive data.

propublica.orgFederal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.A federal program created to protect the government against cyber threats authorized a sprawling Microsoft cloud product, despite the company’s inability to fully explain how it protects sensitive data.

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Dechardin
@dechardin.bsky.social

Is there a word for government of the absurd, by the absurd, and for the absurd? We have kakistocracy, aristocracy, plutocracy, kleptocracy, theocracy, pervertocracy, idiocracy, dipshitocracy, jackassocracy, shitzenpantsocracy, etc., but …

§ Jason
@jasonct.bsky.social

This comes from the “No one was ever fired for hiring Microsoft” mindset. Gov. Procurement knows that, no matter how colossal the project failure ends up being, no one will question them for hiring the “best”. So, these companies rest on their laurels rather than producing usable products.

§ Jason
@jasonct.bsky.social

We'll maybe they were trying the "fight fire with fire" approach? Of course if you are incompetent, you just end up burning everything down.

Mars Rover
@marsrover.bsky.social

Congrats tech companies for maturing to the "Defense/Aerospace Profit Model". Leverage connections to land a giant contract for a system you know you can't build to spec (F-35), won't work (F-35 again lol), and/or will be insanely overbudget (ISS). Get dug in with contract. Get ever more $$$.