re: #290 CyanSnowHawk

This is the sort of thing that comes out of a very long government acquisition process, with some key requirements that are just not available in COTS (Commercial off the Shelf) systems. The data security requirements are mentioned in the linked article. I wonder when it was originally contracted and what the initial requirements were?

I know about COTS vs. MILSPEC, etc., but come on. They use off-the-shelf laptops on the space shuttle.

In any case the point is it doesn’t even meet the needs it was originally designed for - to do paperless census interviews. It’s just a clunky, dot-com era PDA address book with GPS and a phone jack. Can you say “Newton”?

And data security can be provided by means much simpler than a biometric sensor. Come on! Encryption 101.

Not impressed.