The US government shut down at 1201 ET on October 1, halting non-essential IT modernization and leaving cybersecurity operations to run on skeleton crews. President Trump has made overhauling government technology a priority for his administration - at least sort of - since coming into office. The Trump-created, formerly Musk-helmed not-quite-a-government-department, DOGE, was given a broad mandate to modernize IT systems when it was stood up in January. In the process, the government's tech tra...