**Engineering Wednesday** Identity theft and the fraud that comes with it are a documented problem in the two countries that supply most of the H-1B pipeline. Turning our high trust society into a low trust society one visa at a time... India ranked first among surveyed countries in 2022 for adult identity-theft victims, with an estimated 27.2 million. TransUnion measured India’s suspected digital fraud rate at 7.1 percent in 2025, nearly double the global average of 3.8 percent. Account login was the highest-risk stage. Sophos found that about 77 percent of surveyed organizations in India experienced at least one identity-related breach in the prior year. Large secondary datasets of Aadhaar and related identifiers have repeatedly shown up for sale on dark-web forums. Indian police have opened cases where stolen or forged Aadhaar and PAN documents were used for tens of crores in fraudulent transactions. UIDAI has deactivated more than 20 million “ghost” Aadhaar numbers tied to deceased persons after cross-checking death registries. China’s Enforcement Directorate investigations in India have traced Chinese nationals as the main operators behind most illegal instant loan apps and related crypto scams. The apps offer short-term loans through mobile phones, require broad access to contacts, photos, and other phone data, then use that data for blackmail and harassment when borrowers miss the high-interest, short-term terms. The ED has identified roughly Rs 28,000 crore in crime proceeds from these networks. China-linked contractors and groups have also been documented pulling large volumes of foreign identity data, including tens of gigabytes of Indian immigration, flight, and visa records. The same system runs extensive collection of its own citizens’ identifiers through national ID, facial recognition, and social-credit infrastructure. Those two source countries supply the large majority of H-1B petitions and renewals. The same system that brings the workers also places many of them inside companies that hold government mail, health records, financial data, and critical infrastructure. Screening is a weak paper exercise Background checks, as well, nobody is conducting onsite interviews. It sure is a good thing the two largest source countries for the program that puts foreign engineers next to American systems are so carefully screened that identity theft and data exposure stay over there, and that sensitive U.S. information is never offshored into those environments. Otherwise, every day we would be hearing of an other data breach of our financial, medical, and government data. Right? Question: How many more times does the same source-country pattern and the same incomplete control have to appear before the default path for government and critical systems stops treating the screening paperwork as the actual barrier? Sources - Statista 2022 survey of identity-theft victims by country - TransUnion H1 2026 Top Fraud Trends Report (India 7.1 percent suspected digital fraud rate) - Sophos State of Identity Security 2026 - Resecurity and related reporting on dark-web Aadhaar listings - Washington Post / New York Times reporting on iSoon / KnownSec leaked files containing Indian immigration data - UIDAI statements and Indian police cases on Aadhaar/PAN misuse - Economic Times and Enforcement Directorate reporting on Chinese nationals and illegal instant loan apps in India (Rs 28,000 crore in traced proceeds) - Prior public reporting and Cyber Safety Review Board findings on Microsoft incidents involving foreign engineers and government systems - USCIS and DOL data on H-1B source-country distribution

Co pilot is the shredded wheat of cereals. It's the plain vanilla of yogurt. It's the fiat 500 of compact cars.

14% success rate. Offshore is where companies go to die.

Simple answer - CEO can't sacrifice American security and prosperity unless they have H1B running things into the ground. Right @VP ?

There's not much left to sell.

Seen how the salaries have risen.

They do.

4,500 a day are passing away. 11,000 a day are retiring.

I did. How many hundreds told us on X to go back to Europe?

That's exactly what I was referring to

Agreed

**Engineering Wednesday** A Microsoft whistleblower claim is circulating that an engineer based in India received approval through the company’s escort process to view logs in a Government Community Cloud Moderate environment. Microsoft has not confirmed or denied the specific access - we all know what that likely means. The company’s published description of GCC says personnel do not have standing access to customer content and that temporary elevated permissions require U.S. citizenship checks. Just because escort arrangements exist on paper doesn't mean accountability follows. Americans widely agree only Americans should be anywhere close to this data. This is following a cascade of issues we are seeing with foreign IT. Congressional health records were compromised in a March 2026 breach of RXNT, the electronic prescribing system used by the Office of the Attending Physician. An unauthorized actor accessed the platform for two days and exfiltrated data that included names, addresses, dates of birth, physician names, and prescription information for members of Congress and others. Notification to lawmakers came nearly two months later. The incident exposed prescription details tied to sitting members of Congress through a third-party system. A 2025 ProPublica investigation raised the same issue with China-based engineers on Defense Department systems. Microsoft later stopped using those China-based teams for that work. This is one allegation. It sits next to a longer list of documented cases where Microsoft systems that carry government data had known flaws, late patches, or incomplete controls. SolarWinds. Hafnium. Storm-0558. Midnight Blizzard. SharePoint. ConnectWise. In each one the company kept the contract and kept the model. The same model is not limited to government cloud. The same companies place H-1B and other visa workers in healthcare systems, financial systems, and critical infrastructure. The economic case is lower cost and easier replacement. The security case is that the person with the access has a different set of incentives, a different set of obligations, and a different home government. When the access is to logs, mail, or systems that hold government, health, or financial data, the difference is not theoretical. Vice President Vance and the Labor Department have already said Microsoft and others abused the visa and green-card process while laying off American workers. The access pattern is clear and Pete Hegseth has transparently exposed the damage to our military systems. The question is not whether one engineer in one screenshot saw one log. The question is whether the profit from keeping the visa pipeline open is still worth the accumulated risk across national security, healthcare, and finance. Question: How many more times does the same company get to put a non-citizen engineer next to government or critical systems before the default path stops being the one that keeps accepting the risk for the margin? Drop the shop if you have watched the same sequence on a smaller contract. The pattern is the part that does not reset. Sources - GBHackers and related cybersecurity reporting, October 28, 2026: Microsoft whistleblower claim regarding India-based engineer and GCC Moderate escort access; claims unverified - ProPublica 2025 investigation on Microsoft’s use of China-based engineers for Defense Department systems and Microsoft’s subsequent change - Cyber Safety Review Board and prior public reporting on SolarWinds, Hafnium, Storm-0558, Midnight Blizzard, July 2025 SharePoint, and October 2026 ConnectWise campaigns - BBC, The Verge, and company statements on the October 2026 White House / Labor Department action restricting Microsoft and others from the PERM process, and the dispute over H-1B and layoff numbers - HIPAA Journal and related reporting on the RXNT breach, May 2026: unauthorized access March 1–3, 2026; Office of the Attending Physician affected; prescription and related data for members of Congress exposed; notification delayed until approximately May 18, 2026

It's harder to kickback $ from a border wall.

They can remove the board with a simple majority vote.

It seems to be true though.

They should not be in that position. We don't need H1B and who needs a degree for that job?

Thats just typical mass transportation for the region. Nothing to see here..

This is refreshing - As a parent with one student at UF and another on a few years - I am looking at institutions that have this as a policy for where my Daughter attends.

WEF/Financial institutions - the government proposal-> kickbacks to politicos- but yeah. You got it

Well based on my posts which usually carry citations. Democrats would have to make it illegal and then retroactively arrest folks like they are in England