Obama probably didn't pay its developers enough to get solid coders. Hence a scrappy web system.

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From: James A. Donald <jamesd@echeque.com>;
To: stef <s@ctrlc.hu>;
Cc: <cypherpunks@cpunks.org>;
Subject: Re: request for transcript: Bruce Schneier and Eben Moglen discuss a post-Snowden Internet
Sent: Tue, Dec 17, 2013 12:15:22 PM

stef wrote:
> > > I think that making working for NSA "srsly uncool, dude" is a very effective
> > > tactic, for example. Especially in the light of the "thanksgiving talking
> > > points".

James A. Donald wrote:
> > Will never work.  You overrate social pressure.

rysiek wrote:
> despite german government seemingly having serious problems recruiting
> competent devs for producing their own malware

Governments have serious problems recruiting competent developers even
for stuff that many people approve of, for example the obamacare web site.