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Microsoft Says It Has Stopped Using China-Based Engineers to Support Defense Department Computer Systems

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.propublica.org/article/defense-department-pentagon-microsoft-digital-escort-china

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  • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Great. Next can we stop using Microsoft for defense department computer systems?

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  • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I never would never have expected them to be using China based engis on defence systems thats wild. No wonder they got cooked by salt typhoon.

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    • Loduz_247@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They wanted to save costs, but cheap was expensive.

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    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If a for profit firm does something illogical the answer for why is always that it pleased shareholders.

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  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Outsourcing your Defense Department to a foreign country is a choice. Not a smart choice, but a choice nonetheless.

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  • StowawayFog@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It will just get Chinese engineers H1-B visas and bring them to America instead. Problem solved.

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  • nkat2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    What Microsoft did was absolutely inexcusable.

    But, really, not just for this alone.

    As for the DoD enlisting Microsoft, given the latter’s decades-spanning horrible reputation, I don’t know what to say.

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  • BigTrout75@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Um thanks

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