Strange IT outsourcing news story...

[azasadny]

Stranger than something from The Onion...

Top Developer Found to Have Outsourced Work to Chinese Subcontractor (January 16 & 17, 2013) An audit found that a software developer at an unnamed critical infrastructure organization had outsourced his work to a subcontractor in China and was spending his days surfing the Internet. The man's company became suspicious when VPN (virtual private network) traffic logs showed logins to the company's server from Shenyang, China. They asked their service provider, Verizon, to investigate. Instead of finding evidence of malware, they discovered that their top developer had outsourced his work. He had even gone so far as to send his RSA token to China by express mail. A subsequent investigation revealed that the programmer has taken on jobs with other companies and outsourced that work as well.
'Bob' outsources tech job to China; watches cat videos at work - Computerworld

[Z-man]

I guess that qulifies as "If ya can't beat them, join them!" Instead of waiting to be outsourced himself, Bob took the initiative and did it hiimself. I suspect his actions were against company policy, as sharing RSA tokens is typically frowned upon.

Not sure why he chose China, and why he didn't bother to cover his tracks by dealing with his 'people' directly, and keeping them separate from the corporate infrastructure...

-Z-man.

[stealthn]

I saw that and had a good laugh. Wonder how much IP the Chinese developers now have from the company?