Does Offshoring Threaten Combat Software? 247
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."
Re:Hysterical rubbish (Score:3, Informative)
At one time, the US had a "War Department" and a "Secretary of War". Sometime in history, we changed the name to "Department of Defense" and "Secretary of Defense". This happened about the time we stopped using the army for actual defense of the country and instead started using it to bully the rest of the world.