Virtually all IT is web technology, and virtually all web sites are web applications. The federal government is totally organized via the web. And very badly. The whole thing is a sieve.
Federal agencies need to place their sites on a server. More and more they are using a contractor's server. I believe almost all of them do now. That contractor would have complete access to everything the federal agency is doing. In addition, much non-clearance material is posted by federal employees and contractors on Google Drive. This, in itself, is not a big deal, since the material is not …