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		fmax30 on Oct 21, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Contractors See Weeks of Work on Health Site Who told them to use vanilla php to make everything , 500 million lines of code is an astounding amount of code . Next step put up a disclosure/FOI request for the source code of the healthcare.gov so that we can know what they were writing in there.

marginalboy on Oct 21, 2013 [–]

I doubt you'd get it from an FOIA request. I believe there's an exemption that covers work like this.

valleyer on Oct 21, 2013 | [–]

Right — no one there knows how to edit the database credentials out of the PHP source. :)

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