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> You need thousands of smart people going through every machine, all the software, all the systems. These people are never going to work for Baltimore or for Maersk, not in a million years.

I love this assumption that anyone smart or anyone good would automatically be working for another company or at another job. Not only is that just screwy off the top (assumes that smart people automatically can move and relocate to the most desirable job - even geographically) but it also assumes that anyone with any skills would never ever work in that type of situation to begin with. [1] Maybe there are good people that are working there but a government situation like the city of Baltimore is not chock full of the type of money required to actually fix a problem like that or ever Maersk management does not view it as a priority in any way. You know not every job is in a startup that has been VC funded and can afford to lose money ditto for a traditional company such as Maersk. Noting of course that the 'best and the brightest' that work for some of the 'top companies' are kind of screwing up frequently. Not to mention MSFT 'top' designed much of this hackable code at one point.

[1] Attorneys are often like this as well the halo of a top firm means if you are operating out of a storefront you must be stupid in some way otherwise you'd be working at one of the top shiny law firms.