Now that a lot of our software is outsourced, how can we

[alfredo]

be sure some Indian, or Pakistani hasn't slipped in some code that enables foreign powers to attack us or gain a competitive edge through industrial espionage?


What's in your XP?

[dbonds]

1. Every project I know of that has been shipped off to India

has failed and had to be redone here. At least for the companies I know the experiment is over and it cost them more money to try to send to India. I wouldn't worry about them adding code slighly we couldn't detect, I would just worry about the stuff working.
Note: the crux of the problem with sending stuff there is the cheap workers are those without experience, they hire on to get the experience and quickly move on to a better paying job when they can.

[alfredo]

2. The hostility to education by bush is going to hurt our software

companies, forcing us to continue relying on foreign coders.


Still the chance of industrial espionage is higher by using foreign nationals.