ADMIN Re: Clearances (was Outsourcing)

["Lisa M. Bronson" <lisa -at- techwr-l -dot- com>]

Bring it back to tech writing, folks, before I start taking names...

Lisa B.
TECHWR-L Administrator


>> Yes it's broken. It's even worse because government purchases large
>> amounts of commercial off-the-shelf software. While the software comes
>> from US-based vendors, it is developed wholly or partially overseas. I
>> can't believe someone at the Pentagon isn't worried about that. If the
>> evil doers ever infiltrate those outsource locations, we're really
>> screwed.
>

> It kills me to think that we're being forced to sacrifice our personal
> freedoms in the name of "security", while the same government that
> demands this blithely lets the equipment we need to do our jobs be
> outsourced to countries that may or may not have our best interests at
> heart.
>
> But that's another rant.
>


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