[clue-talk] Microsoft and Lockheed to develop military network protocol

[Dennis J Perkins]

Bruce Ediger wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> Is this expected to work on the Internet? Or totally isolated? And 
>> Microsoft
>> is doing security???
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/16/darpa_microsoft_reinvent_internet/ 
>>
>
> Two things:
> 1. It probably won't work when totally isolated, much less on the 
> Internet.
> 2. Microsoft gets a lot of respect from management types for the "SDLC",
>    software development life cycle or some such.
>
> But we all know, curtesy of last Sunday's "Dilbert", that a Good Process
> can replace Good employees, eh?  Microsoft will do to security what it 
> did
> to coding: allow a chicken to do it by ringing a bell with its beak.
>
> My thinking after reading the article: it'll never get high enough to
> crash.  We can forget about this, it's a $31 million boondoggle that
> will have zero effect on anything other than LM's bottom line.
> _______________________________________________

I've seen the results of policy meant to replace thinking.  Not pretty.

A friend said $31 million is probably only enough to handle the initial 
paperwork since this involves the Federal govt and the military.