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Pay one sixth of your salary to a Chinese developer and do elephant all!
Developer outsources own job to China![^]
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Transvestites - Roberts in Disguise!
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I'm not surprised that he "is no longer with the company" - they now know they can replace him at 1/6 the cost...
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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"Bob" was rated the best dev all the while he was outsourcing to China.
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Too far fetched to believe, so it must be true.
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
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Damn, I was gonna post this!
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Hmmmm... The other night I watched the movie Outsourced[^] from 2006. At one point the main character meets another American in a fast food restaurant in India and he tells him a story exactly like this.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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"'ey guys! There's a successful manager here - we need to fire this guy ASAP!"
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Did you watched the "Detective Mittens video" , It's a very interesting cat though
I believe Bob loved Cats.
Thanks,
Ranjan.D
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Absolutely unreal!!!!!!!!!! The lack of journalism can only be compared to medical malpractice.
The real source: securityblog.verizonbusiness.com[^]
This went from Verizon Business’ RISK team “We received a request from a US-based company asking for our help in understanding some anomalous activity that they were witnessing in their VPN logs.”
…to (wait for it)…
iDigitalTimes.com “Well apparently one US developer for Verizon took this mantra a bit to far as it was recently discovered that the man, known only as ‘Bob,’… "
And iDigitalTime.com’s says “According to 'The Register', the…”!!!REALLY!!! Nobody is willing to take 15 minutes to find the actual source.
At least theRegister.co.uk got the facts right. Although I wish they would’ve make the source a little clearer than a single link on “said.”
- great coders make code look easy
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Thanks for sharing the real link. I apologize for sharing the link from iDigitalTimes.com , Which I thought was authentic. Now I got to know it has a mixture of true and false statements
Thanks,
Ranjan.D
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No need to apologize, sorry if I came across strong. I read securityblog.verizonbusiness.com regularly, so seeing it misquoted was a bit shocking. I’ve listened to these guys at a conference & have a ton of respect for them. I’ve always heard about lazy journalism, just never been able to see a side-by-side comparison.
Anyways… food for thought: How might Bob have avoided getting caught?
- great coders make code look easy
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How he wouldn't have been caught? Methinks:
1. Actually worked from home and letting them tunnel via his laptop and ADSL line.
2. Not keeping invoices on his work PC.
3. Definitely shouldn't have browsed the web so much during working hours on work PC.
Points 2 and 3 alone would already have made the difference in repudiating the "preposterous" claim that he would outsource his own work.
But clearly Bob was an amateur.
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I was thinking something similar. Having Bob’s contractor VPN directly into his company was stupid. China would (and did) easily stand out during even a simple audit. He should’ve setup a VPN in his home and used it as a relay/proxy. Since he was approved to work from home the logs would’ve appeared normal.
Playing this one level deeper… Bob still could’ve been caught because his work box is probably Windows and he probably would’ve used a Linux variant for the relay/proxy. (Windows is the path of least resistance for most businesses and a Linux relay/proxy would be the cheapest for home users.) TPC/IP packets sent from Linux are different than Windows and can usually be passively identified. The catch is who would willingly bring down that level of pain upon themselves. Bob would’ve needed to raise other red flags in order for an average company to undertake that level of detail.
Key take away: log everything… and actually review them.
- great coders make code look easy
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I work from home via VPN. Any Chinese CPians want a job ?
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Christian Graus wrote: Any Chinese CPians want a job ?
They couldn't do a worse job...
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Quite clearly "Bob" is wasting his time as a developer. Managing outsourcing contracts is his forte.
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