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   Microsoft to stop using China-based engineers for US military tech support   
      
   Date:   
   Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:17:00 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   Chinese engineers are apparently being employed with minimal supervision from   
   US personnel.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   Some of the most sensitive data the United States has to offer is currently   
   being maintained by engineers from China, often considered, especially in the   
   tech field, its biggest adversary.    
      
   A report from ProPublica has claimed Microsoft is using these engineers to   
   maintain the Department of Defenses computer systems, with minimal    
   supervision by US personnel.    
      
   This arrangement has changed as of now, Microsoft says, as the firm has   
   revised its practices to ensure Chinese engineers no longer provide technical   
   support for services in an effort to mitigate the risk to national security.   
      
   Digital escorts    
      
   In response to concerns raised earlier this week about US-supervised foreign   
   engineers, Microsoft has made changes to our support for US Government   
   customers to assure that no China-based engineering teams are providing   
   technical assistance for DoD Government cloud and related services, said the   
   Microsofts Chief Communications Officer, Frank Shaw, in an X post .    
      
   The workers were supervised by digital escorts, barely-over-minimum wage   
   workers who are often less skilled than the engineers they oversee - many are   
   former military personnel with very little coding experience.    
      
   One of these escorts told ProPublica ; were trusting that what theyre doing   
   isnt malicious, but we really cant tell.    
      
   Whilst this system has been in place for almost ten years, many former   
   government officials told the publication that they were unfamiliar with the   
   practice.    
      
   'Literally no one seems to know anything about this, so I dont know where to   
   go from here, said Deven King, spokesperson for the Defense Information   
   Systems Agency.    
      
   The ongoing tech and trade war has seen the two states introduce strict   
   regulations and national security policies, restricting access to markets and   
   opportunities on both sides. Chinese hackers have even targeted local US   
   governments in malware campaigns, highlighting the security risk posed by   
   state-sponsored actors.   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/microsoft-to-stop-using-china-based-eng   
   ineers-for-us-military-tech-support   
      
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