[NTLUG:Discuss] Hidden Malware in offshore products raisesconcerns

[Lance Simmons]

* Tom Adelstein <adelste at netscape.net> [030913 18:45]:
> Lance Simmons <lance at lsimmons.net> wrote:
> >
> > Why would a company pay someone to write code that the company
> > couldn't review?  Could you offer some support for this claim?
> 
> You must be nuts asking a question like that. It's true. They don't
> return the code. 

Not nuts, just uninformed.  I've never worked in the tech sector, so I'm
not familiar with its ways.  I don't understand why any company would
accept such an arrangement.  You're saying that when U.S. companies
contract out programming jobs to foreign programmers, they don't receive
the resulting code in return -- when they presumably _would_ have
received it from an American programmer?  Count me confused.

Where can I find more information about this practice?

-- 
Lance Simmons