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Post-9/11 DOJ Tech Project Dying After 10 Years?
gManZboy writes "A secure, interoperable radio network that the Department of Justice has been working on for more than a decade and that has cost the agency $356 million may be headed for failure, according to a new report by the agency's inspector general. Called for in the wake of 9/11, the Integrated Wireless Network (IWS) project has already been repeatedly scaled back. Today, the Department of Justice continues to rely on several separate land mobile radio systems, some of which are unreliable, obsolete, and fail to interoperate with one another. Agents often have to swap radios, share channels, or refer to a book of radio frequencies and manually switch between those frequencies to stay online. Radios remain insecure, as much of the current equipment fails to meet encryption requirements. Much of the agency's equipment is more than 15 years old and is no longer even supported by the manufacturer."
Ok this is going to piss a lot of people off and it's barely related to the story but fuck it, I'm just going to say it. The US is a fucking shadow of what it once was and it's now a big corrupt joke. See that story about Asia overtaking the US in innovation? Yeah, it already happened 20 years ago, you're in denial. Your education sucks, you get worse scores on math tests than chirlden from countries where they don't own shirts and do their homework on slates. Your goverment fails at every project they undertake - after it goes overbudget and funds dissapear with no accountability. Your medical system is a fucking joke - you turn down the sick because they don't have the right type of insurance and maulpractice is rampant. Your distrobution of wealth does nothing but show how your system is owned by greed and your politicians don't even bother trying to hide the fact they're sellouts (SOPA/PIPA anyone?). And how about the next election? Here are your choices: a man who covers the fact he's running you poor and selling you out by giving charged speaches about vaguely positive ideas and a greedy idiot who belongs to a religion where you are required to wear "magic underwear".
A Russian friend of mine said this to me: "Russians aren't waiting for the rise of the East, they ware waiting for the decline of the West". It feels like that day has come. Flame me, mod me down, do whatever - I'm not even going to respond. I just wanted to get that out. The dream of America is dead.