Microsoft's "Digital Escort" Program Enabled Chinese Engineers to Access Pentagon Systems (propublica.org)

• Microsoft used China-based engineers for Pentagon cloud support via U.S. escorts
• Escorts with security clearances pasted code from Chinese engineers without technical review
• After ProPublica report, Microsoft ended practice; Trump signed access ban law

"A ProPublica investigation revealed that Microsoft used a "digital escort" program allowing China-based engineers to service US Department of Defense cloud systems. US citizens with security clearances would copy-paste code from Chinese engineers onto Pentagon networks. After the story broke, Microsoft stopped the practice, and a law was signed banning access from adversarial countries."