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Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico (www.cnbc.com)

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Google is laying off more employees and hiring for their roles outside of the U.S.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil 2 points 6 months ago

Any government that want to gather intelligence or blackmail another government could do it through inserted exploits in Microsoft’s code.

You know, its funny. There was a recent documentary on Netflix, called "The Octopus Murders" that goes into a theft committed by the Reagan DOJ of a $6M software suite called PROMIS. The suite was edited and repackaged, then distributed to foreign governments under a new Reagan-Admin friendly vendor with a collection of backdoors and security bugs that US officials could use to infiltrate networks of allied nations.

If our efforts to rapidly and comprehensively outsource all our software overseas resulted in the same thing reflected back on us, I would find that very amusing.

But I've yet to see any actual evidence of malfeasance by overseas coders. More often - in my personal experience working with overseas software companies - they're overworked, underpaid, and in a race deliver quantity over quality.