alt Hacker NewsGood write up. Not to mention the other big HR constraints on DoD engineers: they almost always have to be a “US person.”
Anyone who gets a CAC working on a personal computer deals with this all too much. The root certs DoD uses are not part of the public trusted sources that commonly come installed in browsers.
lol I very nearly included a rant about that but decided it was too far off topic. Not being able to smoke weed may be more of an obstacle these days though.