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Old Aug 24, 2005 | 3:20 pm
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justin thyme
 
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Originally Posted by skofarrell
Implement it on 100K desktops (with budget constraints) and get back to me.
Your 100K number seems high to me, skofarrell; are there really an average of 2,000 desktops per state, even including inland states without international entry points?

But even if there are 100K desktops on the Customs network in question, I still stand by my comment regarding scalability. Any number of companies -- Sun or IBM or Cisco Systems, for example -- could handle the assignment. It wouldn't require re-invention of the wheel.

As for budget constraints, that may be a different story, granted.

Perhaps we could have allocated an adequate budget to safeguard the security of Customs' networks if the current administration hadn't spent (and weren't continuing to spend) billions upon billions of dollars to fund the invasion and occupation of a foreign country that played no role in the terrorist attacks of September 2001.

Lay on, all you Macduffs.

Aloha,
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