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This has happened many times before and probably will again. IT Security companies and their s/w and tools are a great way to attack their customers.

Most of these IT security & service providers are picked by the bean counters on the basis of "whichever is cheapest".

When this is your selection bias, do the results surprise you?

Or who they play golf with.

Not really. The people picking the IT contractor are middle managers who spend all day in meetings. They don't play golf.

my experience is that usually this comes from CTO/director level and goes across the entire organization. middle managers don't have that much power, their role is just to spread (and watch) the requests across the teams.

We call it playing golf, but it's just Kickbacks or money being thrown around.

Same way they built devices in the 80's until someone started using better components and ate their competitor's lunches.

> picked by the bean counters on the basis of "whichever is cheapest".

Or by how nice the ties they wear are

> When asked why he robbed banks, Sutton simply replied, ‘Because that's where the money is.’