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> If you can get a government contract in the first place you are already administratively competent enough to use FIPS.

Speaking as a sysadmin for a local government roped into FIPS requirements by way of FBI CJIS compliance I can safely say your assumption of competence is incorrect.



It may be that just everyone else is even moreso incompetent.




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