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Microsoft Removes China-Based Engineers from Pentagon Cloud Support Operations
technology.org ^ | 7/21/2025 | Alius Noreika

Posted on 07/27/2025 11:25:18 AM PDT by ransomnote

Microsoft has announced the removal of China-based technical personnel from its Department of Defense cloud maintenance operations, responding to revelations about foreign engineer involvement in sensitive military computing systems.

The tech giant’s decision follows investigative reporting by Pro Publica that exposed how Chinese engineers participated in maintaining cloud infrastructure for America’s military establishment. The arrangement previously operated under a supervision model utilizing “digital escorts” – cleared U.S. personnel tasked with overseeing foreign technical staff.



TOPICS: Business/Economy; China; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; cloud; cybersecurity; digitalescorts; microsoft; nationalsecurity
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1 posted on 07/27/2025 11:25:18 AM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

I would trust Microsoft with ...no, I don’t trust that company with anything.


2 posted on 07/27/2025 11:29:32 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: ransomnote

Removed, eh? The fact they were even on or connected in any way to begin with is a huge problem.


3 posted on 07/27/2025 11:30:15 AM PDT by vmpolesov
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Result of political correctness. The Chinese are OK. They would never spy for China.


4 posted on 07/27/2025 11:31:15 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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To: ransomnote

Microsoft will always have Bill Gates’ pedo, globalist, Davos H1-B DNA in it.


5 posted on 07/27/2025 11:31:36 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: ransomnote

TOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LATE !!!!!!!!


6 posted on 07/27/2025 11:33:17 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ransomnote

Our national defense on the cloud. There has never been such stupidity.


7 posted on 07/27/2025 11:37:08 AM PDT by Revel
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Our national defense on the cloud. There has never been such stupidity.

You have no idea....

8 posted on 07/27/2025 11:46:12 AM PDT by paulcissa
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To: ransomnote

Why were they allowed in there in the first place given the history of their students stealing research and their industrial spies sending research data back to China?


9 posted on 07/27/2025 11:46:43 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (In a way ge is right as)
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To: ransomnote

So? There are thousands more.

What they do is pare down the classified programs into unclassified, yet highly sensitive components (aka Controlled Unclassified Information, CUI) then give the foreigners access. It then takes nothing to know the classified parts.


10 posted on 07/27/2025 11:48:32 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Revel

The clouds were created by the intel branches using some of their tech.


11 posted on 07/27/2025 11:49:25 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: ransomnote

The problem with countless office, corporate, white collar, Corporate managers, CEOs, middle managers, government bureaucrats, and all the other lifetime indoor work people, is that they tend to be go along to get along, blend in, non-confrontational, mushy people, they don’t really take the blood and guts world seriously.


12 posted on 07/27/2025 11:51:47 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Unreal!
The blatant communist infusion into key parts of our government and society boggles the mind...

Beginning with the Clintons, then Bush, then Obama, then Biden-Obama...

It is like, in many respects, reliving a modern version of the “fall of the Roman empire”...


13 posted on 07/27/2025 12:03:17 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: ransomnote

In other news Microsoft orders the barn door closed.


14 posted on 07/27/2025 12:11:09 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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Microsoft Removes China-Based Engineers from Pentagon Cloud Support Operations.

AFTER the news of it released.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$


15 posted on 07/27/2025 12:19:40 PM PDT by Vaduz
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How many Americans are working for the Chinese, Indian or Pakistani military industrial complex?


16 posted on 07/27/2025 12:22:31 PM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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too late. they’ve grabbed everything up to this point.


17 posted on 07/27/2025 12:30:27 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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Way to little.
Way to late.
The damage is done.


18 posted on 07/27/2025 12:30:29 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: paulcissa

In todays D.C. it’s all about the money.


19 posted on 07/27/2025 12:32:49 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: ransomnote

China has modernized, in just about every industry, because of theft and copying of IP and our innovations.

Nothing we do escapes their grubby hands.

Even modern weapons and space technology and missile technology, were all stolen and copied.

Their fifth generation fighter jets are almost exact replicas of ours, and now, their sixth generation is looking exactly like ours.

As long as China has access to anything at all from us, they will cheat and steal and copy. We need to break all ties with them, except diplomatically.


20 posted on 07/27/2025 12:32:51 PM PDT by adorno ( )
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