alt Hacker NewsThe sabotage scenario is perhaps less likely than the alternative scenario of industrial and political espionage.
There are also practical advantages: the ability to fix a bug in-house instead of waiting for a technology giant from another continent.
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lo_zamoyski • last Sunday at 2:04 PM
> the ability to fix a bug in-house
Yes, but bureaucracies make this impossible. If you have worked at a bank before, you'll know how difficult it is to make a change to some in-house piece of software. And that's a bank, not a gov't institution. Think how much more friction there will be in the latter.
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Less likely? This is exactly what happened earlier this year.
Here's an article from the same newspaper that showed up to me as "related" when browsing TFA:
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Criminal-Court-Microsoft-s-emai...