URL shorterners and the US government
Posted by bendygirl on October 7, 2009 at 7:32pm
Recently, I was able to do a temporary detail to GSA from my agency (Veterans Affairs). My detail involved the creation of a url shortener (it's in a Beta test now, but you can see it at http://go.usa.gov).
I had amazing help from friends in the Drupal community, especially my friend SeanR.
However, there was also a lot of discussion about the usual sorts of things:
· Drupal isn’t secure,
· it’s gonna crash our system,
· can’t be done,
· it’s not safe for government,
· too vulnerable to cross site scripting,
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