Today, we
would like to thank those gentle, kind, loving souls who have pioneered unique
and creative ways to provide assistance for those in need. Those daring individuals smart enough to give
more than money, to provide opportunity, to provide the means for the
downtrodden to finally break the cycle of dependency. Today is the time to thank those who are
paving the way to a brighter, more prosperous future.
Our first
example comes to us from the high tech world of computer programming and
software development. A place where one
man took the initiative to reach around the world and offer assistance to a
person who will never get the chance to thank him for his philanthropy. We will let the internet news agency tell you
about this selfless deed.
“What began as a company's suspicion that its infrastructure was
being hacked turned into a case of a worker outsourcing his own job to a
Chinese consulting firm, according to reports that cite an investigation by
Verizon's security team. The man was earning a six-figure salary.
The anonymous company, identified only as a critical
infrastructure firm, asked Verizon's Web security personnel to look into data
that showed its virtual private network was being accessed from China — even as
the employee whose credentials were used to log in from overseas was sitting in
the company's offices, using his computer.
As Emil Protalinski writes
at The Next Web, the company's security measures included a coded
fob which, the investigating team learned, a code developer had shipped to Shenyang , China , so that a company there could perform his assigned work.
And it turns out that the job done in China was above par — the employee's "code was clean, well
written, and submitted in a timely fashion. Quarter after quarter, his
performance review noted him as the best developer in the building,"
according to the Verizon Security Blog.
It seems that Verizon
has removed the page publishing this "case study" — either that, or
it has merely become unavailable for some other reason. But a cached
version of the storyoffers more details. The report, which assigns
the inventive employee the fictitious name of "Bob," described him as
a family guy in his 40s, with extensive software knowledge.
After they were called in to look for rogue software
that allowed hackers to perfectly mimic an employee's log-in, and maintain an
active and secure connection, the investigators instead found "hundreds of
.pdf notices from a third party contractor/developer in (you guessed it)
Shenyang, China."
The Verizon team even found that "Bob" kept
a regular schedule at his office:
·
9:00 a.m. – Arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours. Watch
cat videos
·
11:30 a.m. – Take lunch
·
1:00 p.m. – Ebay time.
·
2:00 – ish p.m Facebook updates – LinkedIn
·
4:30 p.m. – End of day update e-mail to management.
·
5:00 p.m. – Go home
And as they learned, his schedule also included
sending less than one-fifth of his salary to the Chinese firm. Verizon's
investigators say the evidence they uncovered suggests "Bob" might
have had similar arrangements at several companies.
"All told, it looked like he earned several
hundred thousand dollars a year, and only had to pay the Chinese consulting
firm about fifty grand annually," according to the Security Blog.
It is that
kind of sacrifice that will save the world, and free the masses, bringing light
where there was darkness, hope where there was despair, food where there was
hunger, money where there was a person willing to do the job for significantly
less. Thank you, faceless, nameless
pioneer of the new charity movement.
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