Gotta have priorities, y’know. What’s more important, the future of our country, or tax cuts for the rich? Yeesh!

it took me a while to get my ear calibrated, but if you listen closely enough, you canl hear that “savings increase” is really “savings _{accounts of the 0.01% will} increase.”

I’m still waiting for all of the savings that comes from ‘privatization’ of public purposes. 😈

Yeah, when you give root access to contractors you have no security, especially when you have out-sourced background checks to the low bidder.

The big thing about government employees is that when they don’t do their jobs they can not only lose their jobs, they can go to prison.

As it stands now the only one who has been punished is the person who pushed to make the system more secure, which is pretty much SOP in politics – shoot the messenger.

I don’t know why anyone would trust a private firm to act in the interests of the people instead of for themselves. It flies in the face of Randian philosophy.

Just wait and see what happens when a marketing firms gains access to NSA files.

I repeat, there was no hack. What there was, was people authorized to access the systems who themselves should have never passed a background check. There were Chinese nationals who had full root access to the network. There was a contractor in Argentina who had full root access to the network. Because they were contractors.

They didn’t get hacked by someone outside their network. They got looted by people they’d given the keys to. People who should have never had keys. It’s as if I went out and found a criminal getting out of jail on burglary charges, and gave him my house key.

This reminds me of Edward Snowden more than anything. Except in this case, there were multiple Edward Snowdens, contract sysadmins who had way too much access to the network, and most of them worked for foreign governments.