Part of getting older is accepting things like this as being how we stop truly shitty jobs from getting done.
How would a non-technically competent government official figure out which random hacker to award a contract like this to? They can't. And if they tried they'd probably hire someone that would over-promise and under-deliver and wouldn't be around in six months to fix things if they needed fixing.
How would a non-technically competent government official figure out which random hacker to award a contract like this to? They can't. And if they tried they'd probably hire someone that would over-promise and under-deliver and wouldn't be around in six months to fix things if they needed fixing.