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Re:82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on governm... by thinkloop on Thursday January 23, 2020 @06:44PM (#22133647)
Given that it is open source, it seems odd that they wouldn't run it on their own servers.
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Re:82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on governm... by brisance on Thursday January 23, 2020 @07:21PM (#22133987)
Just because I know how a car works mechanically doesn't mean I'm inclined to build a fleet of my own.
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Re:82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on governm... by jml78 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @07:49PM (#22134218)
The DoD absolutely has the technical ability to run their own shit.
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Re:82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on governm... by GcVmvNhBsU on Thursday January 23, 2020 @08:54PM (#22134648)
The trend for the last couple of decades (since Reagan?) is: if it’s not used to kill people, contract it out. Systems that used to be run by DoD personnel are now ran by Oracle/Microsoft in the cloud and Northrop/Raytheon and various small companies for on-premise.
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Re:82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on governm... by jml78 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @09:10PM (#22134750)
Sorta but sorta not.

Lots of things are contracted out but still run in DoD data centers with government oversight.

Me = Former DoD software engineer of 12 years.

But even so, there are a shit ton of DoD software people.

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Re:82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on governm... by bradknowles on Saturday January 25, 2020 @03:22PM (#22148417)
There’s an entire Agency of them.

It’s called the Defense Information Systems Agency. And they’re not even the biggest in that space.

I worked there for about five years.

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Re:82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on governm... by brisance on Friday January 24, 2020 @02:02AM (#22136006)
Even the "killing people" part is also contracted out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_military_company

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Re:82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on governm... by backupcavalry on Thursday January 23, 2020 @08:39PM (#22134548)
Yes, but he's suggesting that DoD might not care to, which I can believe. Whether that's out of laziness or time constraints is another question.
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