[johnmarcus]

If only we funded the police with trillions of dollars, then they could use that funding to update their computer systems. Awe well, guess it comes down to the old saying "you can't have your assault vehicles and system security too"

[dependenttypes]

> then they could use that funding to update their computer systems

But why? It seems like a waste of money.

[thephyber]

I interpreted your parent as pure sarcasm. The US government did throw hundreds of billions of USD at state and local police, anti-terrorism, and surveillance (including fusion centers for each state). They have no excuse for screwing up the security of their intelligence exchange (except we have come to live with low expectations for government organizations).

[dependenttypes]

I interpreted said post as sarcasm that implied that the US police should have gotten rid of their older computers and get new ones that can run fancy JS and electron. Nothing to do with security, only about wasting money.

[aj3]

If they current pcs cant run electron, they likely can't run latest office either. It's probably still the age of win7 there, might be 32bit as well. With ancient Acrobat reader as well.

This has everything to do with security. They are one click away from getting whole department pwned.

[dependenttypes]

> If they current pcs cant run electron, they likely can't run latest office either

I honestly doubt that. Office is surprisingly much lighter when compared with any electron application.

Anyway, chances are that they are running more than one program at once. Plus they do not really need to use office.

> It's probably still the age of win7 there, might be 32bit as well

funfact: win10 also has a 32bit version, and it works just fine on computers with limited ram

> With ancient Acrobat reader as well

Should have used Zathura instead.