A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers
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The Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China and elsewhere to remotely instruct American “escorts” who may lack expertise to identify malicious code.

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-digital-escorts-pentagon-defense-department-china-hackers?amp%3Butm_medium=social&amp%3Butm_campaign=mastodon-post

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