Reply #10: I never claimed it was 'slanted against India'

[muriel_volestrangler]

I pointed out it has nothing to do with outsourcing. That is still true.

You are imagining that there is a link between credit card information processing and this story; but there isn't. The source of the fraud was one petrol station; individual stations do not make a decision to have their transactions processed somewhere. Clearly, there is something special about this station; it will be the credit card processing machine (commonly known as 'Chip and PIN' in the UK, but I'm not sure if the US calls it that). It's a scam that's been seen before - the machine is broken into, and some electronics inserted to record the PIN that people type in to authorise the transaction, and the other details on the card that are needed to create a clone. The transaction processing after the point of sale, on the other hand, wouldn't include enough information for cloning a card.

If you read the article again (or even just the excerpt), you'll see that the 'centralized point' in this case in the UK - all information stolen there, in one petrol station, and then distributed to other countries, like the US, Canada, Australia - and India, among others.

Actually, there has been a lot of outsourcing from one company to another in the USA, and inside other countries, for years. It's been a standard tactic of management - it allows contracts to be terminated, sub-contractors to be played off against each other as they lower bids for work, and so on, rather than having to deal with (possibly unionised) internal employees who have more rights. It doesn't have to be from one country to another; it's just that in recent years, much of it has been, typically to low-wage countries like India.