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Comment on Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust”

Feyd@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I’m sorry but you just straight up don’t know what incident is being discussed here. Go look it up instead of talking about unrelated bullshit.

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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

U.S. personnel with security clearances supervise foreign engineers, including those in China

Again, working on a codebase doesn’t give you access to the production systems. Neither does being Chinese affect whether you are a reliable third party contractor.

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- Feyd@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  The supervisors did not have the expertise to know what the foreign workers were doing, otherwise there would not have had to be 2 workers in the first place. And the foreign workers were not just writing code - they were doing sysadmin. On DoD systems.
  
  I don’t know how to make any more clear to you but it’s completely obvious to anyone that actually understands these things that this was terrible opsec, and obviously not how any reasonable person would expect a DoD contract to be managed.
  
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  - UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    The supervisors did not have the expertise to know what the foreign workers were doing
    
    If that’s the case, then the work should be in house
    
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