Every so often...

Julia Lerman points to an impressive failure in software development at the FBI. This sort of thing happens in the public sector and the private sector - most of us who work in and around the IT world have our own store of "war stories". Ironically, I'd guess that we hear about the public failures more often - in the private sector, the people who got fleeced seem to be far better at burying the bad news. I know about multiple failures that have never been reported publically...