White House Switches To Open Source CMS Drupal

The White House’s website has undergone some technical overhaul over the last weekend, as perhaps the most internet-savvy US administration to date has shifted to open-source code for the website over the last weekend.

The administration switched to the open-source Drupal content management system for the website WhiteHouse.gov, implying that the programming language is written in public view, accessible for public use, as well as enable people to edit.

White House executives compared the changes in the website with the restructuring the very foundation of a building without altering the street-level look of the facade.

The move has brought upon to ramp up the security of the White House website, keeping it immune to host of potential malware threats currently floating over the web.

Discussing the significance of the revamped website, the media director of the White House, Macon Phillips, said in a statement: “We now have a technology platform to get more and more voices on the site. This is state-of-the-art technology and the government is a participant in it.”

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While making the website more open to the public seems to be placing it on a security risk, experts claimed that this actually would make the website more secure, as programmers collaborate in it to discover errors or chances to exploit the web code.