>Agency officials are attempting to determine whether the two people made the changes accidentally or intentionally, and if there was any malicious intent, the person said.
People are remarkably failure-prone in the absence of controls and guardrails. Sadly, I suspect the individuals will get the rap instead of whatever crap process made it possible for the changes to pass muster and get into production without being caught and corrected.
Malicious changes to the IT systems were done outside the FAA by messing directly with the elections of officials who run federal agencies like the FAA.
Americans always look for a movie plot when the very real threats to “the homeland” looking to abuse their access are operating in the open and have been for many years… and they’re not low level software engineers.
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for instance, maybe that person has said something kind of evil, imo -- like maybe that an entire country should be ceded to some other country -- but even then i wouldn't want to overgeneralize -- i def don't like being associated with the most famous/rich americans when i go abroad, or interact online.
but i would agree generally that non-us investors buying up us politicians, pr firms, and tech and media companies is something we/us should be careful about.
On some level Americans are responsible for what our government and economic leaders do. We cant identify as and benefit from being Americans and then chide other groups for being racist when they complain about what our leaders do in our name. The reverse is equally true
the people that pushed, bragged and elbowed their way into executive management at a massive, eternally funded bureacracy are experts at disregarding the viewpoint, input and most of all directions from others
The first thing to do in such a position is to reward an inner loyal circle by increasing their benefits, authority and lessen the actual work, via contractors. This thread shows anecdotal evidence that setups involve far more than half the working headcount as contractors. The contractors do real work, take real blame, and are routinely pushed around since that is what people really do to each other.
At what stage of any of this do "we" take responsibility and make change?!? it is fortified income protection, not responsive systems, described here..
https://archive.org/download/SimpleSabotageFieldManualStrate...
"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
Fact remains that a system wherein this is possible is a system that has been exploited. Marshaling the forces to fix the system is the preferred outcome, unless you want the system to remain exploited (ie, you benefit from the situation).
I tend to find that idea is adjacent to conspiracy thinking.
If society is being “run” by anybody then either (a) they could do a much better job of it for themselves, or (b) they are very good at hiding.
“Powerful” people seem to often have the same problems as the rest of us: they seem to be on the receiving end of systemic issues they don’t understand as much as any of us, they often work long hours, they still get tragic family issues and chronic health issues.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/05/tucker-carlsons-critiqu...
Yes the wealthy mega-donors in American politics could absolutely do better by American workers than they are. How do these people being old and having health problems excuse their treatment of American workers?