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EYE-OPENING TRUTH ABOUT INDIAN IT OUTSOURCING THAT WILL SHOCK THE NATION!!!

EYE-OPENING TRUTH ABOUT INDIAN IT OUTSOURCING
THAT WILL SHOCK THE NATION!!!

I have been reading several articles on outsourcing IT work to India. And I had a very balanced outlook on the concept of outsourcing IT work to India, until I received this email from a contact in India:

"India is an ideal place to outsource IT labor work,
like website development or custome solutions, what
majority companies were doing until recently. But once
you get into more sophisticated work, like research and
development of products, hosting confidential data,
there are absolutely no copyright, patent, intellectual
property protection laws enforced in this country.

India is one of the top 7 most corrupt countries
in the world. The laws are only in the books, justice
is rarely ever served. 20% of the politicians have serious
criminal records (murders, grafts, etc.) and
a civil case on average takes 10-20 years to resolve.
Majority of the businesses completely avoid court,
police and try to settle disputes or even criminal
offenses out of court. Lawyers are not there to practice
law, but act more like agents to bribe politicians,
police to get your work done.

However, even though one can think one can get
work done by simply bribing, it is not that easy.
It takes lot of time and effort to decide who should
be bribed and how bribed money will be distributed
effectively. Every corrupt officer has to agree on
the amount etc.

To make long story short, trusting tax returns, personal
data, development of software that can be used by defense,
or other government organizations (that may be hacked to add backdoor
entries) in foreign countries is not a wise thing. This is
just a begining. Soon we will see, small countries
around the world shopping around in India,
luring software engineers to sell all the confidential
codes, data of well-known US based companies.
Which they may use for financial gains, or some
malicious intent. Talking to some of the
engineers we learnt that there are brokers
who are already shopping around for such things. So an employee need not wait to find a
potential buyer for the stolen technology and data.

If murder is not an offense in a society, no matter how much
one protects onselves, just the notion of not being
punished and easy to get away with, will create several
potential enemies. That is what is happening. Software engineers and call enter employees are now begining to feel relaxed to carry out such crimes.

And this is exactly what we are experiencing.
We had a fresh software engineer who just joined with
sole purpose of stealing all of our technology,
broke into secure systems, and stole all documents
and code. Thorough investigations from our engineers
found out that the engineer spent 5 days on this theft,
and used careful mechanisms to bypass all of our
security measures. And to the date, we haven't been able to
even file a complaint against the engineer. As we are working
with a highly corrupt system that is still working out
on amoung and who gets what. And these 10 days are
enough for the offender to make enough copies and
distribute or sell information to brokers. And even if the engineer is caught, hardly
anyone gets punished in India, as you can even bribe a judge and get away. Although, judges are still considered as honest individuals, and bribing a judge is not that easy, but with so much corruption all around, even that is not impossible.

Upon talking to various other existing IT companies
in India we learnt that engineers frequently carry out
such thefts, mostly to steal code so that they have readymade
code at the next job, or some reference to easily develop
software. In some small companies even employers
encourage using stolen codes as it cuts down
the development time."

THIS IS REALLY SOMETHING SERIOUS TO THINK ABOUT!

Posted by: RonHeinz   Posted on: 07/30/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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