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It's a fallacy to believe that all projects are just sold to the lowest bidder. There are probably a dozen reasons why something like this might have occurred, and not giving the vendors a free pass, but assuming that a more expensive vendor would do a better job with security and reviews is just as likely to be a mistaken belief. If a project is too expensive for a client to do well, they should not be doing that wo…
The way that government procurement often works, it isn't the cheap contractors you end up with, either. Not many companies have the resources or willingness to stick through the long time it often takes to go through the bidding process, nor all of the pre-qualification requirements. The whole process is long and drawn out with all sorts of checks and balances built in to it, based on previous learnings from previou…
Re: We tried to book a train ticket and ended up with a 245k records data breach
#81And sometimes the technology becomes close to not supported and you end up creating a new project with 5 year old technology because of the drawn out bidding process.