Software Testing. Virtual assistant, administrative assistant, office assistant, virtual, jobs, training, VA networking, social marketing, social networking. FBI special agent recounts outsourcing horror story. The CAD/CAM company thought it was protecting itself, having employees of the Indian outsourcing company that was debugging its source code sign non-disclosure agreements.
But when a disgruntled outsourcing employee swiped a copy of the code a few years back and tried to sell it to the CAD/CAM vendor's competitors, the vendor found out that the NDAs were of little use when it came to prosecuting the alleged thief in India. "They weren't worth the paper they were written on," says Nenette Day, an FBI special agent out of Boston who did double duty as both the case agent and undercover agent investigating this crime against software maker SolidWorks. "The employees would have had to sign the agreement with the Indian company, not the American one. " Day, who has worked in computer crime for 8 years and calls herself "a geek with a gun," told attendees at last week's CIO Forum that their companies need to do serious research about the laws of any country to which they outsource work.