<div dir="ltr">The names of Citizens are collected on the website along with some personal contact information. We were told that our application required the Medium level security certification.<br><br>For collecting more sensitive information, certification becomes nearly impossible.<br>
<br>Thanks<br>Jon<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Gerhard Killesreiter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerhard@killesreiter.de">gerhard@killesreiter.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Jon Saints schrieb:<br>
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> On a recent project for the US government, half way through the<br>
> development process, our work was stopped by a government security<br>
> review which said that Drupal (and open source software in general)<br>
> is not suitable for use in government projects that house personal<br>
> information due to security concerns.<br>
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</div>Just out of interest: What kind of information are we talking about?<br>
Tax numbers, bank accounts?<br>
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[...]<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> I notice other governments around the world are using Drupal with great<br>
> success and savings to citizens:<br>
> <a href="http://buytaert.net/new-zealand-government-using-drupal" target="_blank">http://buytaert.net/new-zealand-government-using-drupal</a><br>
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</div>Seems like a showcase site only.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Gerhard<br>
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