Unfortunately, the implementation of this modification introduced a critical security flaw. According to sources familiar with the ATF’s internal operations, the update was not properly secured. Due to misconfigurations in the eForms system, the client-side form elements, those rendered in the user’s web browser, were vulnerable to manipulation. [More]
Sounds like incompetent administration all the way around, beginning with an inadequate request for proposal back when.
I’d love to see some of those “humorous, provocative, or outlandish” entries.
Anybody got the “step-by-step instructions on Reddit” link that has been deleted, and tried it on archive.today or Wayback Machine?
Ask me a question to which you allow only one answer.
Then tell me what that answer is.
Why do you waste my time asking?
Whatcha talkin’ ’bout, Willis?
“In response to these inadvertent administrative denials and the ensuing controversy, the ATF directed Leidos to update the system. The free-text box was removed and replaced with a simplified drop-down menu offering only one option: “All legal purposes.”
It’s reminicent of a religious ritual where a rhetorical question is asked and the crowd all chants the “correct” answer.