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TreasonousBastard

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7. Well, even though the cost is more'n likely being less than the cost of one F-35, Congress will...

Reply to Kablooie (Original post)

Thu May 13, 2021, 01:09 PM

May 2021

in it's inimitable way, trash it because it costs too much.

More to the point may be that the work will not be spread around through that many congressional districts. And that congress doesn't know nearly as much about cyber security as it thinks it knows about things that go *boom*.

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