Microsoft (MSFT) uses engineers in China to help maintain U.S. Department of Defense systems, with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel, leaving sensitive data vulnerable, ProPublica’s Renee Dudley reports. Various people involved in the work told ProPublica that they warned Microsoft that the arrangement is inherently risky, but the company launched and expanded it anyway, according to the report.
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