Shorts
What happened
Microsoft had a program where engineers based in China would write code, then hand it to cleared American employees who would paste it — largely unreviewed — into computer systems used by the Pentagon. This went on until the government found out and made it illegal.
Why it matters
The context behind the story.
The US military's most sensitive digital infrastructure may have had foreign-written code slipped into it, with almost no one checking what it actually did. This is the kind of security gap that keeps intelligence officials up at night — and it was happening inside one of America's biggest companies.
Takeaway
One of the biggest security threats to the US military wasn't a hack. It was a copy-paste.
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