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#1 Top Rated PostJan 16th, 2013
Capitalism????
How a 'model' employee got away with outsourcing his software job to China - The Globe and Mail
Bob was his company’s best software developer, got glowing performance reviews and earned more than $250,000 a year.
Then one day last spring, Bob’s employer thought the company’s computer system had been attacked by a virus.
The ensuing forensic probe revealed that Bob’s software code had in fact been the handiwork of a Chinese subcontractor.
Bob was paying a Chinese firm about $50,000 a year to do his work, then spent the day surfing the web, watching cat videos and updating his Facebook page.
The incident was revealed Monday on a blog by security experts at the American telecom firm Verizon Enterprise Solutions and has quickly been the talk of tech websites.
“While the large-scale data breaches make the headlines and are widely discussed among security professionals, often the small and unknown cases are the ones that are remembered as being the most interesting,” wrote the blog author, Andrew Valentine, a Verizon senior forensic investigator.
He said the creative but deceitful programmer, whom he called by the pseudonym “Bob,” was a family man and long-time employee in his 40s, “inoffensive and quiet. Someone you wouldn’t look at twice in an elevator.”
How a 'model' employee got away with outsourcing his software job to China - The Globe and Mail
Bob was his company’s best software developer, got glowing performance reviews and earned more than $250,000 a year.
Then one day last spring, Bob’s employer thought the company’s computer system had been attacked by a virus.
The ensuing forensic probe revealed that Bob’s software code had in fact been the handiwork of a Chinese subcontractor.
Bob was paying a Chinese firm about $50,000 a year to do his work, then spent the day surfing the web, watching cat videos and updating his Facebook page.
The incident was revealed Monday on a blog by security experts at the American telecom firm Verizon Enterprise Solutions and has quickly been the talk of tech websites.
“While the large-scale data breaches make the headlines and are widely discussed among security professionals, often the small and unknown cases are the ones that are remembered as being the most interesting,” wrote the blog author, Andrew Valentine, a Verizon senior forensic investigator.
He said the creative but deceitful programmer, whom he called by the pseudonym “Bob,” was a family man and long-time employee in his 40s, “inoffensive and quiet. Someone you wouldn’t look at twice in an elevator.”