Militants Attempt Attack on Offshoring

It looks like US IT workers are not the only one upset with offshoring. Straight from Slashdot:

Militants killed in an encounter in New Delhi on Saturday night planned to attack leading software companies in Bangalore in addition to the Indian Military Academy in Dehra Dun, Delhi police said on Sunday Indian police claim the men were members of Lashkar-e-Toiba - a Wahabi militant group fighting for an independent Kashmir. Apart from maps of call centers police also recovered 100 kilos of dynamite, 10.5 kilos of RDX explosive, 450 detonators, three AK-56 rifles and a satellite phone.

Either that or they were hired by someone in the US to help move jobs back over here. This actually raises a really good point about the integrity of your data overseas. Granted not all countries are unstable, but it may be easier for someone to attack the facilities overseas then within the US. What if they had also been armed with a 200 GB Firewire hard drive?

Don't get me wrong, the loss of human life would be the greatest tragedy, but what if those lives were lost as part of an espionage operation? Large corporations place a lot of value on information, especially information about their competition. What a tragedy it would be to kill someone over ones and zeros.

Or what if PayPal or Amazon had an off shore data center and someone attacked it, downloaded all the customer's bank and credit card information, then left an explosive to cover their tracks. Blame it on some militant separates group and no one would be suspicious of good old fashion thievery. They could be draining bank accounts for years to come before everyone was able to change their information or could even make the connection.