As someone who currently works for a company who is a vendor to local governments, this article is SPOT ON! I've been at this over 25 years now, and the glaring incompetence due to the fact that there is no monetary incentives outside the largest local governments is unforgivable.
I have striven, simply because I give at least a little bit of a sh*, to put as much security into the software as possible. I was taught that! I watch cops put their lives on the line in these smaller communities to be paid such crappy wages, only because the government had no money. Who am I to take advantage of that? I'm no di*.
