Software Dev outsourced his job to China

[JAJT]

This is hilarious.

From: Security audit finds dev OUTSOURCED his JOB to China to goof off at work ? The Register

(Bold mine)

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".

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"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. ®

 

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[theag]

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I think its great what he did^^

 

[JAJT]

Took a quick glance at the new posts to see if this was posted and missed that thread.

Admins can feel free to delete this

 

[Vick]

ya this went around work today. pretty funny

 

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[khsrr]

Where can I find this Chinese contractor?

 

[mapaul04]

Yeah, I saw this on Yahoo, its amazing all the slowlaners that comment on these type of stories. Their mindset is frightening

 

[Rick Grantham]

I think its great what this guy did. I also expect his employer not to be happy.

Cheers-
Rick

 

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[GPM]

Now that is pretty fast lane! Imagine what he could have done had he not screwed around with all his free time.

 

[PopEmersen]

I think I would have promoted the guy or at least had an in depth conversation because

1. He thought out of the box
2. He figured a way to circumvent the system, I would like to know how so we would know the weaknesses of the system.
3. He hired good devs so the work was being done and being so well he received awards.


Who knows, his thinking could save the firm money in the long run. Maybe they need a branch in China.

 

[JAJT]

Realistically the biggest issue in everything else he did was sending his authentication keys overseas.

Imagine if the contractor was able to grab private information from the corporate system and sell it to the highest bidder? Or release it for free for all to see?

Having someone else do your job is one thing but the potential liability tied to the security threat was gigantic.

 

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