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PostPosted: Jan 17, 2013 9:20 am    Post subject: brb paging china Reply with quote

Security audit finds dev OUTSOURCED his JOB to China to goof off at work

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Cunning scheme netted him 'best in company' awards
By Iain Thomson in San Francisco
Posted in Business, 16th January 2013 01:29 GMT

A security audit of a US critical infrastructure company last year revealed that its star developer had outsourced his own job to a Chinese subcontractor and was spending all his work time playing around on the internet.

The firm's telecommunications supplier Verizon was called in after the company set up a basic VPN system with two-factor authentication so staff could work at home. The VPN traffic logs showed a regular series of logins to the company's main server from Shenyang, China, using the credentials of the firm's top programmer, "Bob".

"The company's IT personnel were sure that the issue had to do with some kind of zero day malware that was able to initiate VPN connections from Bob's desktop workstation via external proxy and then route that VPN traffic to China, only to be routed back to their concentrator," said Verizon. "Yes, it is a bit of a convoluted theory, and like most convoluted theories, an incorrect one."

After getting permission to study Bob's computer habits, Verizon investigators found that he had hired a software consultancy in Shenyang to do his programming work for him, and had FedExed them his two-factor authentication token so they could log into his account. He was paying them a fifth of his six-figure salary to do the work and spent the rest of his time on other activities.

The analysis of his workstation found hundreds of PDF invoices from the Chinese contractors and determined that Bob's typical work day consisted of:

9:00 a.m. – Arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours. Watch cat videos

11:30 a.m. – Take lunch

1:00 p.m. – Ebay time

2:00-ish p.m – Facebook updates, LinkedIn

4:30 p.m. – End-of-day update e-mail to management

5:00 p.m. – Go home

The scheme worked very well for Bob. In his performance assessments by the firm's human resources department, he was the firm's top coder for many quarters and was considered expert in C, C++, Perl, Java, Ruby, PHP, and Python.

Further investigation found that the enterprising Bob had actually taken jobs with other firms and had outsourced that work too, netting him hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit as well as lots of time to hang around on internet messaging boards and checking out the latest Detective Mittens video.

Bob is no longer employed by the firm. ®




http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/16/developer_oursources_job_china/

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PostPosted: Jan 17, 2013 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Arghghh, they foiled his clever scheme.
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PostPosted: Jan 17, 2013 10:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very smart.... granted he'll probably never be hired by anyone ever again but he could do well with his own business at this point.
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PostPosted: Jan 17, 2013 1:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seems like a pretty innovative dude. Makes me wonder what kind of stuff IT guys can get away with at work.
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PostPosted: Jan 17, 2013 7:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is too awesome! I love it!
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PostPosted: Jan 18, 2013 4:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So the guy will now just start his own development firm. Probably do very well at it. I knew this would happen at some point.
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PostPosted: Jan 18, 2013 9:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Funny and crazy! I wonder if I can start doing that with cabinets? I would have to stop doing shop tours then! Mr. Green
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PostPosted: Jan 19, 2013 9:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

where I have worked i the past, that's called "Project Management" and gets you promoted.
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PostPosted: Jan 19, 2013 10:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

now theyre probably still outsourcing just cutting out the middle man
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PostPosted: Jan 19, 2013 4:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Honestly, if this guy could have outsourced his own work to China like that without giving access to the company's intranet, why should he be fired, right?

I mean, I can see him being fired if he violated a security policy, but not for subcontracting his work out.

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PostPosted: Jan 22, 2013 3:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Neognosis, Maybe he can hire someone from china to take it to court for him as some sort of work study program Laughing
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