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A little-known Microsoft program could expose the Defense Department to hackers

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Re: A little-known Microsoft program could expose the Defense Department to hackers

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> Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China ...

The fun of using Cloud type systems. I expect AWS, Google and maybe IBM Cloud has the same issue. Save $ now, pay lots more later.

Re: A little-known Microsoft program could expose the Defense Department to hackers

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Did I miss it, but what do these "digital escorts" actually do. The article doesn't seem to actually explain it. Edit: It's people who watch over what foriegn engineers are doing.

I'm guessing a pair of eyes over your shoulder (or virtually watching a session) as you do work near or with sensitive data or systems.

Re: A little-known Microsoft program could expose the Defense Department to hackers

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Did I miss it, but what do these "digital escorts" actually do. The article doesn't seem to actually explain it. Edit: It's people who watch over what foriegn engineers are doing.

It doesn't seem amazingly well worded, but I'm assuming that "these workers" from the previous paragraph are the "digital escorts" which were described as:

> U.S. citizens with security clearances to oversee the work and serve as a barrier against espionage and sabotage

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