The government is terrible at computers. It gets breached, intercepted, and defaced… and that’s when they can actually get a website up and running, as the well-known Obamacare problems remind us. Despite the VA promising to improve its outdated records systems, so bad they once nearly caused a structural collapse from the weight of paper, it’s not modernizing fast enough to help our veterans. Technology legislation and execution just aren’t the federal government’s wheelhouse. Our computer crime laws were literally written in response to Matthew Broderick movies. So in news that’s not a great surprise to anyone, the Washington Post is reporting today that we’ve botched another records modernization push. The government has managed to digitize a grand total of a single immigration form… in 10 years. There are 94 others left to complete, meaning at this pace they’ll be finished at about the time I’m dead long enough for my writings to pass into the public domain. Technically, three forms made it through, but two had to be pulled because “nearly all of the software and hardware from the original system had to be junked.” According to the Post: “The initiative was mismanaged, the records and interviews show. Agency officials did not complete the basic plans for the computer system until nearly