Microsoft Says It Has Stopped Using China-Based Engineers to Support Defense Department Computer Systems
https://www.propublica.org/article/defense-department-pentagon-microsoft-digital-escort-china
https://www.propublica.org/article/defense-department-pentagon-microsoft-digital-escort-china
8 Comments
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 41 pts · 1y
Great. Next can we stop using Microsoft for defense department computer systems?
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 32 pts · 1y
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.
Loduz_247@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
They wanted to save costs, but cheap was expensive.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
If a for profit firm does something illogical the answer for why is always that it pleased shareholders.
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 1y
Outsourcing your Defense Department to a foreign country is a choice. Not a smart choice, but a choice nonetheless.
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y
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.
BigTrout75@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Um thanks
StowawayFog@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1y
It will just get Chinese engineers H1-B visas and bring them to America instead. Problem solved.