Feeling Secure? Well Don't

I try to always keep up with I, Cringely. You might want to also. This is his latest offering.

The IT Infrastructure of U.S. Homeland Security Might Never Come to Be

He opines Homeland Security is bust, but no one will notice.

After the 9-11 terrorist attacks, the United States threw its considerable fortune into the War on Terror, of which a large component was Homeland Security. We conducted a couple wars abroad, both of which still seem to be going on, and took a vast domestic security bureaucracy and turned it into a different and even more vast domestic security bureaucracy. We could argue all day about whether or not America is more secure as a result of these changes, but we'd all agree that a lot of money has been spent. In fact, from a pragmatic point of view, ALL the money has been spent, and that's the point of this particular column. For a variety of reasons, there is no money left to spend on homeland security – none, nada, zilch. We're busted.

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