re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#60 [EXTERNAL] ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#61 [EXTERNAL] ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#69 ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#70 ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#71 ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches
more on the enormous outsourcing that occurred last decade Why does WikiLeaks keep publishing U.S. state secrets? Private contractors. By outsourcing key intelligence work, the government has made classified material more vulnerable. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/16/the-reason-wikileaks-receives-so-many-u-s-state-secrets-private-contractors/ The crux of the problem may be privatized intelligence itself. That's the view of veteran intelligence reporter Edward Epstein in his contentious but informative new book, "How America Lost Its Secrets." ... snip ... the above article glosses over security clearances had also been outsourced and was found to not be done to required standards. Former CEO of IBM last century ... leaves to become head of one of the large private-equity companies that acquires the beltway bandit that will employ Snowden. One of the issues is that government contractors (and beltway bandits) can't use money from gov. contracts to lobby congress (recent convictions for some contractors involved in Hanford cleanup) ... however private-equity companies can lobby on behalf of their owned companies (70% of budget and over half of the people). http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us and futher contributes to the rapidly spreading "success of failure" culture http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/ past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity and http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failure and http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner so major part of the enormous outsourcing that went on last decade ... is the enormous lobbying of congress. A counter folklore justification was that cyber & dataprocessing competitive salaries had increased to point that it would place thousands more people at grade requiring congressional approval. It would be easier to approve large number of contract appropriations (which would also result in large amounts spent on congressional lobbying) rather than figuring out how to deal with the congressional approval needed for all those gov employees (that would have consumed all congressional hours). -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
