Does Offshoring Threaten Combat Software?

PreacherTom writes, "Pentagon officials report that 'maliciously placed code' could compromise the security of the Defense Department and, ultimately, hurt its ability to fight wars. The culprits: offshore programmers. While the Pentagon has stepped up its vendor screening and software testing of late, it's becoming more difficult and costly to test every line of software code on increasingly sophisticated weapons systems. The task force assigned to this issue will be soon presenting its report, and most likely will determine that offshoring presents too great a risk."

Comments

Hysterical rubbish

[91degrees]

Offshoring will save costs,m and ensure that overseas developers, often with considerably greater knowledge of these systems will be able to develop them. the risks are totalyl negligible. I say we petition the government to offshore more development.

Yours - Cylon number 6

Yeah, just think...

[inviolet]

...what if they'd offshored WOPR?

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