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Well if you are Australian you are fcuked everywhere. What company is going to want to hire a Australian developer who can be pressured into secretly inserting

Well if you are Australian you are fcuked everywhere. What company is going to want to hire a Australian developer who can be pressured into secretly inserting a backdoor into your software?

ryacko 8y ago
The same company that would outsource IT to India? Really terrible companies, in short.
- tspike 8y ago
  Every major tech company has workers in India.
  - mirimir 8y ago
    At one point, I worked on a lawsuit involving a firm that had entirely outsourced its IT to India. There was literally nobody left in the US who knew how stuff worked. I don't know, in retrospect, whether that was pathetic, or utterly clever.
    - justinclift 8y ago
      The long term results finally catching up to the short term thinking? Wonder if whoever did the initial short term "lets outsource it!" thinking had moved on by the stage the lawsuit happened?
      - mirimir 8y ago
        I was working for people who were suing them, so mainly it created problems in discovery. Compelling testimony of non-citizens/non-residents was a lot harder, I gather.
FuckOffNeemo 8y ago
Well, I'm a British Citizen who got an Australian citizenship. I guess I'll forfeit them both and just... go some where else?
- ehnto 8y ago
  Well Captain Nemo, I have heard this part of the story before... To the seas!
- orwin 8y ago
  You can still travel and work across europe for now, as long as a brexit deal is reached. You have a fine startup scene in the baltic, crazy startup in Paris and Berlin (tbh, it'll be easier in germany right now), you have really professinnal, interesting companies in the Netherlands, Lille or Hambourg if your thing is devops/non-web dev. With the AI4EU project, you can also land a job building tools for machine learning[1]. We have plenty of oportunities here. [1] Honestly, it'll mostly be integrating different ML opensource solutions together and maybe some FOSS contribution from what i've seen.

Well if you are Australian you are fcuked everywhere. What company is going to want to hire a Australian developer who can be pressured into secretly inserting a backdoor into your software?

ryacko 8y ago

The same company that would outsource IT to India? Really terrible companies, in short.

tspike 8y ago
Every major tech company has workers in India.
- mirimir 8y ago
  At one point, I worked on a lawsuit involving a firm that had entirely outsourced its IT to India. There was literally nobody left in the US who knew how stuff worked. I don't know, in retrospect, whether that was pathetic, or utterly clever.
  - justinclift 8y ago
    The long term results finally catching up to the short term thinking? Wonder if whoever did the initial short term "lets outsource it!" thinking had moved on by the stage the lawsuit happened?
    - mirimir 8y ago
      I was working for people who were suing them, so mainly it created problems in discovery. Compelling testimony of non-citizens/non-residents was a lot harder, I gather.

FuckOffNeemo 8y ago

Well, I'm a British Citizen who got an Australian citizenship. I guess I'll forfeit them both and just... go some where else?

ehnto 8y ago
Well Captain Nemo, I have heard this part of the story before... To the seas!
orwin 8y ago
You can still travel and work across europe for now, as long as a brexit deal is reached. You have a fine startup scene in the baltic, crazy startup in Paris and Berlin (tbh, it'll be easier in germany right now), you have really professinnal, interesting companies in the Netherlands, Lille or Hambourg if your thing is devops/non-web dev. With the AI4EU project, you can also land a job building tools for machine learning[1]. We have plenty of oportunities here. [1] Honestly, it'll mostly be integrating different ML opensource solutions together and maybe some FOSS contribution from what i've seen.