China plans to drop Windows earlier than planned in favor of Linux for some government bodies. The move comes as part of China's broader push to reduce dependence on foreign products and services, especially those of US origin.
For what should be fairly obvious reasons, officials at the US State Department aren’t able to easily download and install software from foreign governments. This is doubly true in file-formats that the security system isn’t equipped to screen and vet.
If you were working at a corporate office, you’d have likely run into the same set of hurdles.
Well, yes, but I would expect something time-senstive to be solved quickly be the State Department’s IT department.
They should have been able to do something like this in less time than “days”.
For what it’s worth, I think our State Department equivalent (I’m German) would have also struggled with something like this, but I am quite certain that they are extremely lacking in skilled IT workers lol
I would expect something time-senstive to be solved quickly be the State Department’s IT department.
I can’t imagine why. It’s a slow-moving ship with numerous levels of authorization between The Guy Hitting The Buttons and The Guy Making The Decisions.
They should have been able to do something like this in less time than “days”.
Again, I can’t imagine why. This information isn’t so time-sensitive that they need to respond to it in hours, much less minutes. And the cost of reacting swiftly but clumsily far exceeds the reward for opening a document in a weird format on a State Department computer.
I am quite certain that they are extremely lacking in skilled IT workers lol
I haven’t seen any evidence of this. Unskilled IT workers will just blindly click and install shit without any gatekeeping or cybersecurity. It’s the skilled ones that go slow and steady, verify within sandbox environments before taking any big risks, and deliver a product that isn’t going to blow up in your face after it’s been configured.
For what should be fairly obvious reasons, officials at the US State Department aren’t able to easily download and install software from foreign governments. This is doubly true in file-formats that the security system isn’t equipped to screen and vet.
If you were working at a corporate office, you’d have likely run into the same set of hurdles.
Well, yes, but I would expect something time-senstive to be solved quickly be the State Department’s IT department.
They should have been able to do something like this in less time than “days”.
For what it’s worth, I think our State Department equivalent (I’m German) would have also struggled with something like this, but I am quite certain that they are extremely lacking in skilled IT workers lol
I can’t imagine why. It’s a slow-moving ship with numerous levels of authorization between The Guy Hitting The Buttons and The Guy Making The Decisions.
Again, I can’t imagine why. This information isn’t so time-sensitive that they need to respond to it in hours, much less minutes. And the cost of reacting swiftly but clumsily far exceeds the reward for opening a document in a weird format on a State Department computer.
I haven’t seen any evidence of this. Unskilled IT workers will just blindly click and install shit without any gatekeeping or cybersecurity. It’s the skilled ones that go slow and steady, verify within sandbox environments before taking any big risks, and deliver a product that isn’t going to blow up in your face after it’s been configured.