Microsoft's Digital Escorts Ghost China, Pentagon Sips Tea
In a jaw-dropping national cybersecurity saga, Microsoft’s decade-long romance with China-based engineers maintaining Pentagon cloud systems got the boot this July! Thanks to ProPublica's detective work led by Renee Dudley, the Defense Department revoked the tech matchmaking, citing risks like Chinese laws giving hackers open-door passes to U.S. secrets. Wildly inadequate 'digital escorts'—think clueless babysitters for ultra-smart coders—failed to supervise these globe-trotting cyber-sleuths. Now, only 'non-adversarial countries' can get cloud access, plus an OCD-level digital paper trail logs every command and nationality. Congress called Microsoft’s antics a 'national betrayal.' Microsoft insists it's pivoting to national security because, well, spying is basically so 2010.
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When you outsource Pentagon cloud VIP babysitters to China, but the supervisors 'lack the expertise,' does that make it a cybersecurity thriller or a tech sitcom? Spoiler: It’s both, and the Pentagon just asked for a refund on their hackers-in-chief.
Imagine hiring world-class nerds from China to 'maintain' your Pentagon data while your only supervision is a digital peanut gallery—oops, no wonder national security took a caffeine break.
Microsoft’s secret sauce was Chinese coders on Pentagon clouds with US 'digital escorts' supervising cluelessly. Plot twist: 'Escorts' totally forgot to check if code was enemy-approved.
Source: Propublica | Published: 9/19/2025 | Author: by Renee Dudley
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