Off-Shore Engineering

[G.D.Thurman]

On 12 Mar 2003, David Mandala wrote:

> Since their quality can be outstanding that is going to be hard.
> American Express is now more then 75% sourced in India where they have
> PhD programmers getting and happy with $7 per hour.
> 
If company Foo outsources computing work to 
company Bar, then what about Homeland Security?
[It doesn't matter what country Bar is headquartered
 because allies are not necessarily trustworthy.]

Does the following happen?  Foo outsources work to Bar 
and accepts/uses an executable in lieu of source code.  

Even if Foo receives code and builds the executable, 
how extensively does Foo review the code?

Can the computing profession argue against some
outsourcing practices based on Homeland Security? 

Thurman