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Ishmael Jones: Spy versus spy

..... The billions spent on the CIA s information and software systems have created a Swamp of different kinds of software created by thousands of different software engineers using unknown and contradictory styles. It s a witch s brew of software, slapped together, each incompatible with the other. No one knows what s in all this stuff. It is easy to hack. There is no incentive for a contractor to write software that will be easy for a competing contractor to use.

The Swamp s software companies differ from Silicon Valley s. Steve Jobs was entranced by technology at a young age. He was brusque and single-minded. By contrast, recently I met a tech CEO in the Swamp who sells software to the CIA. His career had been as CEO of a Democrat think tank. He s a nice guy, well-connected, and an expert at schmoozing government employees and selling them questionable software. He doesn t understand what he s selling, but he knows the profit margin is huge. None of my friends can believe I m a tech CEO! he said. ....

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