Great Aussie firewall claims first victim
government-technology-in-yet-another-doesn't-work-shocker.
the reason that any large scale project like this will never work (be it public or private) is because the employees
a) aren't held responsible
b) don't own it
the systematic results of this are:
1) the employees don't care as much as they might
2) mistakes happen more frequently and don't get corrected when they are discovered
the article demonstrates precisely these points, viz. someone didn't care to check their facts, followed procedural guidelines on assumption and, as a result, a perfectly acceptable system was blacklisted. kudos to the astute aussie for the exposure.
in this particular case, however, it is all parenthetical if you believe that adults are capable of making their own moral judgements (in my book, that is a good part of the definition of the status).
