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by guluarte 399 days ago
cannot the pentagon with their billions in funding make a secure app?
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Yes, and they do. The fact that the leaders of our present kakistocracy don't use it should not be an indictment of the civil and military workers in the US military.
No, the fact that they still work for the US government given “our present kakistocracy” is a sufficient indictment.
Not when "off the shelf" is the motto. They'd still have to outsource the development and at that point would be questioned why spending that much money when Telemessage sells the product.

Unfortunately, the financial structure doesn't really make it easy for custom DoD software.