"That to me is a national security risk and one we should be looking into."

Everyone else, has been saying, "This doesn't look like a national security risk, we should ignore it!"

Wow! Is that Times New Roman!? The outlined and filled version, "Bank of England" and "Fifty Pounds" looks very cheesy and unprofessional. Looks like web banners I made in 1998!

Assuming the video encode is a one time thing... wouldn't there be an energy cost if one codec takes a lot more computation on the decode end? I assume there would be an energy savings on the datacenter and bandwidth end... That would be an interesting benchmark.

This podcast is very good on how outmoded and dysfunctional a our government IT bidding is

  https://gimletmedia.com/episode/34-dmv-nation/

Woopse that was dumb! corrected link below :(

Here is a link to that book on Amazon Computer: A History of the Information Machine.

It doesn't spend much time past the "PC Revolution," read, no windows 95 or Linux.