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US Needs Secure Coding Office
Trailrunner7 writes "If the United States wants to remain competitive in the global economy and prevent widespread penetrations of its strategic, corporate, and commercial networks, enterprises and government agencies should stop relying on commercial software and go back to writing more of their own custom code. 'If we're going to maintain our place in the world, software is not a strategic problem, it is the strategic problem going forward,' security expert Marcus Ranum said in a speech Tuesday. 'Covert penetration becomes something that you think about on a five, 10, or 20-year scale. Why don't we have a government coding office? We have a government printing office. Why don't we have a strategic software reserve? Our own software is probably a greater threat to us than anything other people can do to us.'"
As long as it justifies more money passing through the business of government, you can guarantee the elite at the top of the pyramid will approve of it.
There's a reason why every year government expands in terms of both power and reveune, and it's sure as hell isn't because government is getting better. It's because the bigger the business of government, the more lucrative it is for those who control it.