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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]H1B Visa Holder Attempted Fannie Mae Sabotage – Where’s the Outrage?

[b]A citizen of India, Rajendrasinh B. Makwana attempted to sabotage the computer database at Fannie Mae. [/b]He was, according to news reports, employed as a so-called temporary foreign worker who had been authorized to work in the United States temporarily under the provisions of the H1B visa that had been issued to him.
 
This is the real threat to society, not the sinking of Fannie Mae. But the strange case of Makwana does bring up a number of issues. The main one is the use of H1B visa workers – and holders of other alien-worker documentation – in sensitive areas.  [b]Why was Makwana working at Fannie Mae in the first place? Are you telling me no American citizen could have done his job?[/b]
 
This is not a new concern. It has long been believed that in most cases H1B visas in technology have been exploited by companies such as Fannie Mae only because programmers coming from India work cheaper.

Read more: Family Security Matters http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2426/pub_detail.asp#ixzz31e4ILPRN [/quote]

Makwana was convicted on October 4, 2010, and faced up to 10 years in jail. He was sentenced to 41 months in prison on December 17 by US District Judge J. Fredrick Motz.

Rajendrasinh Babubhai Makwana, 36, worked as a contractor with the home mortgage lender, better known as Fannie Mae, from 2006 through Oct. 2008. He was abruptly fired for writing an erroneous piece of software code that changed settings on the company’s Unix servers without proper authorization.

Ordered to turn in his equipment and security badge on Oct. 24, 2008, Makwana, a foreign national from India, complied and returned to his workstation to finish out the day. His administrative access to the company’s 4,000 servers, however, was not terminated until that evening.

In the interim, sometime between 1:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m., Makwana created a potentially devastating logic bomb script that authorities claimed would have wiped out all of the home lender’s financial data, causing untold damage to the US financial system and erasing the mortgages of millions of homeowners.

The software was set to auto-execute on Jan. 31, 2009 — but that never happened.

Instead, on Oct. 29, a senior Unix engineer (Not an H1B!!!)  found the code embedded below a legitimate script. The two scripts were separated by about a page of blank lines, according to a criminal complaint (PDF) filed with a US district court in Maryland by FBI Special Agent Jessica Nye.

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