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I'm suprised I had to read this far into the comments to see this reality check.
And what about the bigger picture? We're in the middle of a cyber esionage war with China right now. Any IP he had access to, that was of any interest to the Chinese military, can be assumed to be in their hands now. If it were my company, I'd be digging through every log I had to see what IP he gave to them.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Seems to me bob would have done well to clone the work to a private source tree, then after merging commits made by his outsourced workers, made the commits to the company repo himself. Or something along those line (would depend somewhat on how the employer's source control was set up).
Does not address the NDA concerns, but overall, his mistake was allowing the network footprints to reveal his scheme.
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The whole story sounds very fishy to me. Even with daily scrum meetings, face to face talks and discussions (in English), it's time consuming to manage complex projects.
Some guy in some remote province of China, barely speaking engrish can do a perfect job??
I don't think so.
Check the source of the aricle. It the bottom is probably some clever asian trying to make a case for outsourcing.
http://www.engrish.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/12/freshness-you-can-taste.jpg[^]
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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But would you consider one person's work a complex project? If one person can do one person's work, one person managing that same work doesn't sound difficult.
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I assume mission critical projects of a national carrier is not a single man's job.
There is a team, there is testing, integration with third party systems, there are deployments etc. etc.
There are meetings, prototypes, architecture decisions etc etc.
Whoever wrote that article probably has never seen a sofware project in his life.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Sitalkes wrote: I assume mission critical projects of a national carrier is not a single man's job.
But he was only outsourcing his own work, not an entire team's worth (unless I missed something in the article). So he'd only have to manage the work he would have normally had to do. And that seems completely plausible to me.
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You cannot outsource "your" work unless it's a single man project. There is too much day to day interaction within the team members and the other parts of the company to do that.
Unless they provide more details than the youtube url that he was visiting all day, Bob is a fictional character to me in a poorly written article, cleary targeted at us programmers.
Edit: BTW the original article of Verizon is not credible at all as well. They clearly are trying to sell their secirity auditing services by scaring potential customers.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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That guy was smart enough to understand the benefits of outsourcing; and his employer was not efficient enough to outsource the he proved that could be done easily. 
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Well, there you go, "can I haz teh codez" rushing to profiteer.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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