The Outsourcing Industry under Scrutiny

The outsourcing industry that is especially dealing with software used by the nation’s defenses system is said to have made the system vulnerable to hackers and spies. In addition, there is fear building up about whether the industry is sending out sensitive technology abroad that could be used to sabotage American’s ability to wage war.

According to the findings the possibility is there even if most programs are done in small pieces and are assembled into a bigger program, to the point where those that are writing them might not know exactly what their use is. However, most computers that are manufactured abroad could hide spying codes in the programs that instruct the CPU to do anything and one recent case was when the Commerce Department had to discard computers bought from outside sold by the giant Chinese manufacturer Lenvo Group after Chines hackers tried to take control of the system through back doors. One of the suggestion made is the government might take measures where certain programming to be done in the country by approved local programmers.