Comment Re:Two things: (Score 1) 51
"Attribute not to malice what can be easily explained by incompetence."
I know it seems like something that people should easily understand and know, but our society (and in this case beaurocracy) is naturally populated by specialists/savants because of the way we approach and reward work. All some of these people see and do every day involves chasing bad guys, and some of them really can't think outside of their benefits of the change to see the damaging implications. Its kinda like multinationals naming a product that sounds like offensive slang in a foreign language without knowing. Or, a more obvious and closer-to-home example for this crowd, the manager / corporate officer that cripples IT security in response to non-IT complaints that their computers are inflexible and hindering their work.
It could very well be malice, but don't rule out incompetence.