First Snowden, now FAA…How many times we need to learn lessons from contractors. Low salary, boring jobs….they couldn’t even solve two sums, but can cause irreparable damage. Again, don’t give contractors too much access!!! tc 180 FAA outage: US airline regulators blame contractor for travel chaos https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64341873
I think contractor mistake was just a excuse. Which company gives most critical things to contractors ?
Contractors are running pretty much all of US Federal Gov IT systems.
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Stuff no employee wants to touch or maintain
If a system failed catastrophically after someone deleting some files, it was not just contractor’s fault LMAO.
Blaming a sole contractor is no different than blaming an intern for a mistake. The actual fault lies in the systems that provide access, quality, redundancy and security. This system is controlled by none other than management.
Government employees don’t do any hands-on technical work. All of it is done by contractors. Blaming a contractor is an easy way for bureaucrats to escape blame.
That's because contractors are the only folks who do any stuff.
One person, contractor or FTE, deletes files from the server. How is that possible to begin with? Does that mean that if someone is mad at something, they can just go and unplug any system?
Well yeah, that's how machines work :)
No procedure? No back-ups?
You’re talking about the government, not a contractor for Microsoft. Government employees are even more useless.
Usually, it is actually some FTE fault, but a disliked contractor is used As the fall guy.