horrible waste of money on technology

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject: for IP list?
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:29:05 -0700
From: Bob Devine <devinebob () gmail com>
To: dave () farber net

On the heels of stories about poor screening of passenger lists, this
news story lays out (some!) of the horrible waste of money on technology:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/technology/bal-te.nsa26feb26,0,7835588.story

Cryptologic Mission Management    $300 million
Trailblazer                                              $1.2 billion

Add in the waste from the IRS project, the FBI project, the ...
A billion here and a billion there and pretty soon it adds up to real money!

All of us software folks on the IP list will nod knowingly at the "big bang"
projects that get big and then go bang.

Bob Devine

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