[CAVO] DHS remarks re: OS ??

[Brent Turner]

Agreed-

S /W some insiders today and they are on an education campaign to eliminate
further misinformed postings

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 6:03 PM, David RR Webber (XML) <david at drrw.info>
wrote:

> Brent - no this is just silliness / paranoia.
>
> Sensitive software is listed as FOUO - For Official Use Only - and that
> information is restricted internal only.
>
> There are review procedures in place. They are not going to publish
> anything that would be an at risk disclosure.
>
> I see this is just drum beating to ensure that there is no rolling back in
> these areas.
>
> Having said that - I have seen deliberate abuse of this - where parties
> label non-sensitive items - to prevent access / criticism of the content
> involved - and/or to continue funding of pet projects that are clearly
> worthless - or have public open solutions already in place - but we're
> paying to make a poor substitute government one.
>
> Worse - duplicate efforts in different government areas are essentially
> building the same thing.  The GAO should be all over this - but again -
> lack of transparency and correct labelling of purpose - prevents
> correlation - and cross-pollenization.
>
> Ironically there is probably a need for such government open source and
> internal sharing more than public!!!
>
> David
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [CAVO] DHS remarks re: OS ??
> From: Brent Turner <turnerbrentm at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, April 14, 2016 11:37 pm
> To: CAVO <CAVO at opensource.org>
>
> Could it be that these remarks are not actually from the DHS.. ??
>
> Or could it be that a vendor interested party has managed to provide
> misinformation to someone " up the ladder " ?
>
> Thoughts ??
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Brent Turner <turnerbrentm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> https://fcw.com/articles/2016/04/12/open-source-cyber.aspx?m=1
>>
>
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