Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Dept. of Health and Human Services, four current and former agency workers tell WIRED.
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Oh yeah. They're all full of " 💩💩💩💩"!
Twitter was able to recover and keep their servers operating well enough to stay in business. Time will tell whether they can do the same here.
These ID 10 Ts do it to themselves with their "brilliance".
👏😎
We let a cancer into the brain of the system.
Brain cancer is a hard one to beat
Of course that assumes saving money is even the goal. Given the risk vs reward when you mess with critical services, you do wonder.
Others are complicit in their cowardly silence.
It's far cheaper to hire consultants than to pay full salaries and benefits. It's not a new trend.
We’ve always paid by hourly rate or milestone-based deliverables until project completion.
$180K for ERP implementation on a time & materials basis is, in my experience, far more cost-effective.
Consultants charge an hourly rate. That hourly rate covers salary+benefits for the individual consultant(s) on contract (boosted a fraction or multiple as the consulting firm's profit). That hourly rate is usually higher than comparable client staff salary+benefit cost.
more importantly civil employees work for the government and not a private company looking to exploit the taxpayers
😳 😬 😳
Now the tool is breaking, the client is big mad, and we get to call it “the realization of an approved risk”, biz-speak for “told u so”
Musk & the DOGE Script Kiddies are a criminal gang.
Does ANY Republican understand the severity of this.
It scares hell out of the techs I know, several of whom ARE IT experts.
The damage for this will be horrific & long.
It collapses?
They can't chase you for money that's no longer on record