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    18 days ago

    If you [ha]dn’t put up all those strawmen blocking your sight, you might see [] benefits.

    The way this often works today is that even the government offices themselves don’t have the source code for their own applications. This allows for private vendors to extract a lot of money for sub-par, insecure custom software. Government offices often can’t even switch to a new vendor without causing a full rewrite.