[Barry Goldwater]

Offshoring IT could pose a security threat to companies. There's less control over the data so it is easier to steal.
This will come home to roost, probably a bigger impact than Enron.

[sandpit]

What if we relations with these countries goes south? What if they are overthrown by Islamics? If companies have to move their IT jobs back to the US suddenly, they may not be able to find skilled people to fill them. I'm definitely not continuing my IT education. Maybe I'll take up history and see if I can reverse some of the brainwashing that is taking place in our schools.

[tubavil]

Offshoring IT could pose a security threat to companies.

Exactly. In my opinion this will be the winning argument for effective legislation. Now all we need is a conservative leader.

[MelBelle]

When sending my system administration job to India in June, the last thing anyone cared about was the security of data, or who was going to ensure audit procedures were carried on in a sufficient manner. I was only given 2 1/2 days to train my Indian counterpart to take my security admin job. For two years I worked under security procedures that were considered extremely important in regards to audit compliance and in the remaining last few hours of my job the manager in charge of transition to offshore called and said "Who's going to to the audit??" Duhhhhh, I told him they guy who just took my job - you know the one that just flew back to India...

I swear I thought I would get called back or extended for a month BUT our company was severly overbudget even BEFORE the offshore cutover date even started. So here I sit, unemployed after a 15 year IT career..42 years old..just kissed my $70,000 a year job goodbye.