For over a decade, Microsoft had been funneling work through American “digital escorts” — low-pay workers with security clearances but often possessing limited technical expertise — who input commands from more skilled China-based engineers into U.S. Department of Defense networks, a recent ProPublica investigation found. Microsoft announced on July 18 that it would halt the practice after national security and cybersecurity experts raised concerns that these engineers could gain access to sensitive government data.

This is fucking pathetic. Americans are so dumb they have to sit there and ask Chinese engineers to guide them step by step in how to do their jobs every day.