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Pentagon declares war on 'outdated' software buying, opens fire on open source
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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Having done cyber security consulting for space startups (which are ALL DoD adjacent), the worst perpetrators of bad security practices, shadow IT and poor data hygiene are... drum roll...
The business guys in senior management.
What happened with Hegseth and Signal wasn't a shock to me. If you put someone like Hegseth in charge of something like the DoD, it's exactly what I would expect to happen.
I agree but DoD needs to bring the FOSS software out of the server room.