<div dir="ltr">Agreed-<div><br></div><div>S /W some insiders today and they are on an education campaign to eliminate further misinformed postings </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 6:03 PM, David RR Webber (XML) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@drrw.info" target="_blank">david@drrw.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;font-size:10pt"><div>Brent - no this is just silliness / paranoia.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Sensitive software is listed as FOUO - For Official Use Only - and that information is restricted internal only.</div><div><br></div><div>There are review procedures in place. They are not going to publish anything that would be an at risk disclosure.</div><div><br></div><div>I see this is just drum beating to ensure that there is no rolling back in these areas.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Ironically there is probably a need for such government open source and internal sharing more than public!!!<br></div><div><br></div><div>David<br></div><div><br></div>
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Subject: Re: [CAVO] DHS remarks re: OS ??<br>
From: Brent Turner <<a href="mailto:turnerbrentm@gmail.com" target="_blank">turnerbrentm@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Thu, April 14, 2016 11:37 pm<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Could it be that these remarks are not actually from the DHS.. ??<div><br></div><div>Or could it be that a vendor interested party has managed to provide misinformation to someone " up the ladder " ?</div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts ?? </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Brent Turner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:turnerbrentm@gmail.com" target="_blank">turnerbrentm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://fcw.com/articles/2016/04/12/open-source-cyber.aspx?m=1" target="_blank">https://fcw.com/articles/2016/04/12/open-source-cyber.aspx?m=1</a><br></div> </blockquote></div><br></div> <hr>_______________________________________________<br>
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