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by c16 1 day ago
With DigiID, as with this, I never understood why countries give critical infrastructure contracts away from the country it directly impacts, provided they have a mature tech ecosystem. I thought the whole point was that it was critical?
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we never have evidence that providers bribe politicians into signing juicy contracts so I wouldn't claim they do, but it's either that or they're extremely gullible and don't care about their jobs.

consider Hanlon's razor before being mad and sending everyone to court for treason

Either ways, something needs to change

Because politicians hate depending on their engineers so much that they are willing to risk high treason charges instead?
Nobody is getting charged for this in any way.
Not yet )
I kinda like where you are going with this.

But I think the only way to establish these laws would be an IT competent judicative branch of the government... which, as we all know, is pretty incompetent in these manners.

Progress advances one death at a time. As new, younger judges are sworn it, the situation will change in the coming years.