I’m sure the government has SOME really smart IT guys and gals.
But from my professional experience (which is pretty wide) and from reports about the IRS software upgrade debacle, and Hillary’s email debacle, and this “Russian hacking” debacle, I say it’s pretty darn depressing how poorly the US government handles technology. We no longer have the government expertise that built the A Bomb, won WWII, and put a man on the moon.
It’s mostly back-slapping good ol’ boys talking about their golf game, their retirement portfolio and — oh by the way — is that cyber security watchamacallit thing almost done??
We got some good people. Some very skilled folk at the CDC, for example. They have their own cyberthreat monitoring center. And those guys are good. VERY good. I could tell you a story, but I cannot.
But this report? Pure crap.
They either assigned unskilled folks to do this, or — much more likely — they had nothing.