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Secret Service Runs At "Six Sixes" Availability

Posted by timothy on from the only-need-half-as-many dept.

PCM2 writes "ABC News is reporting that the US Secret Service is in dire need of server upgrades. 'Currently, 42 mission-oriented applications run on a 1980s IBM mainframe with a 68 percent performance reliability rating,' says one leaked memo. That finding was the result of an NSA study commissioned by the Secret Service to evaluate the severity of their computer problems. Curiously, upgrades to the Service's computers are being championed by Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who says he's had 'concern for a while' about the issue."

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  1. Re:don't trust it, it's about pork by roman_mir · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    certainly, the moral thing when no taxpayer money needs to be spend is to take it anyway?

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  2. Re:don't trust it, it's about pork by roman_mir · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So by your logic, someone should take much less money and then do what? If the contract is for 100,000,000 for example, you underbid and take 50,000,000 and if that's definitely not enough, then what?

    i suppose you believe the moral thing to do in that case is overthrow the government?

    - oh, the government that US has right now is a failed institution. Should it be overthrown? Definitely. By voting. However if the people just keep voting in the same people, well, they deserve it then, don't they?

    Lucky for me I am not a US citizen and I never lived there, so it's really a question that US citizens should ask themselves.

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