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D.C. Awards Obamacare IT Work To Offshore Outsourcer 402

dcblogs writes "Infosys, an India-based offshore IT outsourcing firm, recently announced that it had won a $49.5 million contract to develop a health benefit exchange for the District of Columbia. The contract was awarded to a U.S.-based Infosys subsidiary, Infosys Public Services. That's one of the larger government contracts won by an offshore outsourcing firm, but it's unclear whether any of the work will be done overseas. The District isn't disclosing any contract details. An FOIA request for the contract has been submitted. Infosys is one of the largest users of H-1B visas, and has been under a grand jury investigation for its use of B1 visitor visas."

Comment Re:HTTPS is not safe either (Score 1) 622

That was exactly my point. SSL / TLS 2048 bits keys are probably crackable for some time now, and if they can mirror trafic at tier-1 carrier's level you cannot even detect it as it's just plain simple mirroring (no hop added or detectable delay).
And for SSH it's time to move to ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) keys.

Comment Re:SSL / TLS ? (Score 1) 622

We are talking about content providers not ISP - it's end to end communication between a browser (generally) and a server... I was trying to say that NSA can maybe refactor private Key from the public one (you know what a certificate is, I assume) OR that they asked those providers to give them the private key.... And so it's basically as if all trafic was in clear as they can decipher it.
Well I give up, you dont understand what I mean and my english is terrible :(

Submission + - Supreme Court Rules For Monsanto In Patent Case (huffingtonpost.com)

Pigskin-Referee writes: WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has sustained Monsanto Co.'s claim that an Indiana farmer violated the company's patents on soybean seeds that are resistant to its weed-killer.

The justices, in a unanimous vote Monday, rejected the farmer's argument that cheap soybeans he bought from a grain elevator are not covered by the Monsanto patents, even though most of them also were genetically modified to resist the company's Roundup herbicide.

Justice Elena Kagan says a farmer who buys patented seeds must have the patent holder's permission. More than 90 percent of American soybean farms use Monsanto's "Roundup Ready" seeds, which first came on the market in 1996.

Comment About the authors: (Score 5, Informative) 476

Carmen Reinhart: (Chief Economist) Bear Stearns -> IMF -> Harvard
                                            \-> married with Vincent Reinhart: FED -> (Chief US Economist) Morgan Stanley.
                                                      famous quote: "Secretary Paulson Makes the Right Call" The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 16, 2008:
"In other words, some government aid might ultimately have to be directed toward financial firms whose failure would otherwise threaten the financial system.
The politicians now running for office should also appreciate that their grand ambitions for new spending programs or tax cuts may have to be tempered by the need to rescue financial firms."

Kenneth Rogoff: IMF -> Harvard

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