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Shoddy excuse 1: “Maybe it was technically a work device, provided by and owned by the employer, and she shouldn’t have used it for personal things”
Then both the employer and the tech vendors involved should have made it not only possible but easy by default for her to quarantine her personal use.
The onus for that kind of opsec should not fall to individuals. That’s just ducking accountability, the kind of cognitive outsourcing large players use to dodge the costs of running their own org.
This is basically “we don’t need to install railings on our corporate balconies; employees just need to never fall off.”
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Oh Jaguar Land Rover is *another* UK company that outsourced their computer security to Tata Consultancy Services. (Like Marks and Spencer - but in the case of JLR they're also owned by Tata.)
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115212986094072683

Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social)
Attached: 1 image In my own story, I discovered JLR outsourced different cybersecurity areas to TCS and then made many of the UK team redundant 6 months ago. https://doublepulsar.com/the-elephant-in-the-biz-outsourcing-of-critical-it-and-cybersecurity-functions-risks-uk-economic-96205e0585bf

#edu

from my link log —
The elephant in the biz: outsourcing of critical IT and cybersecurity functions risks UK economic security.
https://doublepulsar.com/the-elephant-in-the-biz-outsourcing-of-critical…

The Elephant in The Biz: outsourcing of critical IT and cybersecurity functions risks UK economic…
Recently, there’s been three major UK ransomware and/or extortion incidents at three big UK companies — Co-op Group, Marks and Spencer and…

Capita given record £14 million fine over ransomware attack security failings https://therecord.media/capita-record-fine-uk-ico-ransomware-attack

TCS - the weak link?
The cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover is showing us in real time how individual decisions from private enterprise to outsource tech functions like cybersecurity can end up having a much bigger impact, and a cost to taxpayers.
https://www.computing.co.…

When private cybersecurity outsourcing costs us all
The cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover is showing us in real time how individual decisions from private enterprise to outsource tech functions like cybersecurity can ...

Trump loyalist who charged Comey outsourcing help as she 'struggles to find staff': report - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/lindsey-halligan-james-comey/

Each week Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a run-down of the best infosec-related long reads.
This week's selection covers
--Scattered Spider's Urban speaks,
--EU nations subsidize spyware makers,
--AI chatbots fool senior citizens with phishing,
--Scam compounds endanger job seekers and tourists,
--Meat and dairy companies spy on activists,
--Texas wants in on Chihuahua's massive surveillance,
--Cyber outsourcing thr…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 9/13/25
Scattered Spider's Urban speaks, EU nations subsidize spyware makers, AI chatbots fool senior citizens with phishing, Scam compounds endanger job seekers and tourists, Meat and dairy companies spy on activists, Texas wants in on Chihuahua's massive surveillance, Cyber outsourcing threatens the UK

Well, today marks a new low in my professional experience with AI. For the first time in my life, AFAIK, I’ve been quoted in a technical article using a quote that was hallucinated by ChatGPT. Author has been contacted, fix has been made, and stern advice given. It’s truly depressing that people who are perfectly capable of writing their own work are outsourcing to tools that are known to make 💩 up. #AIslop

The Basic B*** Effect: The Use of LLM-based Agents Reduces the Distinctiveness and Diversity of People's Choices
Sandra C. Matz, C. Blaine Horton, Sofie Goethals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02910

The Basic B*** Effect: The Use of LLM-based Agents Reduces the Distinctiveness and Diversity of People's Choices
Large language models (LLMs) increasingly act on people's behalf: they write emails, buy groceries, and book restaurants. While the outsourcing of human decision-making to AI can be both efficient and effective, it raises a fundamental question: how does delegating identity-defining choices to AI reshape who people become? We study the impact of agentic LLMs on two identity-relevant outcomes: interpersonal distinctiveness - how unique a person's choices are relative to others - and intrapersona…

An H1-B visa lasts 6 years. That means employers costs just increased by $17,000 a year per employee to hire non-U.S. persons.
I'm curious if this administration will go after outsourcing as well and try to tariff labor.
And if you say, "that's dumb", well yes this whole U.S. administration is dumb and hasn't stopped them from trying dumb things.

Societies usually known as 'civilised' don't seem to keep their civilisations going without an ample supply of very cheap labour. Slavery, indentured servitude, outsourcing to low-wage countries, (undocumented) immigration, and lately robots, provided that throughout the course of history, and those are now complemented by robotic 'intelligence' – a.k.a. AI – for non-physical labour. I wonder where it will end. If it ever will.

DevLicOps: A Framework for Mitigating Licensing Risks in AI-Generated Code
Pratyush Nidhi Sharma, Lauren Wright, Anne Herfurth, Munsif Sokiyna, Pratyaksh Nidhi Sharma, Sethu Das, Mikko Siponen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16853

DevLicOps: A Framework for Mitigating Licensing Risks in AI-Generated Code
Generative AI coding assistants (ACAs) are widely adopted yet pose serious legal and compliance risks. ACAs can generate code governed by restrictive open-source licenses (e.g., GPL), potentially exposing companies to litigation or forced open-sourcing. Few developers are trained in these risks, and legal standards vary globally, especially with outsourcing. Our article introduces DevLicOps, a practical framework that helps IT leaders manage ACA-related licensing risks through governance, incid…

PP-STAT: An Efficient Privacy-Preserving Statistical Analysis Framework using Homomorphic Encryption
Hyunmin Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12093 https://…

PP-STAT: An Efficient Privacy-Preserving Statistical Analysis Framework using Homomorphic Encryption
With the widespread adoption of cloud computing, the need for outsourcing statistical analysis to third-party platforms is growing rapidly. However, handling sensitive data such as medical records and financial information in cloud environments raises serious privacy concerns. In this paper, we present PP-STAT, a novel and efficient Homomorphic Encryption (HE)-based framework for privacy-preserving statistical analysis. HE enables computations to be performed directly on encrypted data without …