I know a disproportionately large percentage of Google and Microsoft are Indian too, quite likely Amazon as well. Making the connection that the NYSE glitch is somehow connected to the tech staff being Indian is absurd and completely racist.
Hacker News might not like or expect this, but if you run a sweat shop with little regard for the welfare of your employees, you should expect more mistakes and lower quality output. This is not a comment on the racial ability of people whose ancestors were on the Indian subcontinent. There is no evidence I ever heard of for any inherent difference of ability by race. But sweatshops, that is another story.
It was a complex IT problem (no I can't get into more details) that we fixed. No hacking attempt, no conspiracy with the United Airlines Issue or WSJ...shit breaks.
Anyway, back to my idling in the background.
For what little it is worth, I've found H1B employees to run the full range of amazing <-> incompetent at rates indistinguishable (by me) from "natives" in the Bay Area.
Btw, i'm purposely being vague since this isn't really public information. All i'm here to say is we don't run sweat shops, this wasn't a hacking attempt, there is no relation to the issues at United Airlines and WSJ...and last but certainly not least...
It's fun to guess at what's happening but folks should be shunning people who present their ideas as "self-evident" without presenting any actual evidence. Since when do we take people's word for it on the net anymore with a "source"?
Your vagueness isn't serving anyone. If you're worried about confidentiality, you would have been better off not posting at all.
The only things that gave me pause today in attributing this all to an Occam's Razor explanation are:
1) The government's careful wording about this not being an "intrusion" (which leaves open DDOS).
2) The lockstep tempering response is about what I'd expect from an industry which, almost as a matter of national if not global security, has to project a stabilizing confidence to averts irrational panics over even mundane hacking attempts.
I can believe that it is a simply an internal IT issue (apparently requiring people in multiple cities to work like crazy), but I also wouldn't be surprised to hear a completely different story emerge in the next few months as they slice the sausage of public release. It wouldn't be the first time that the initial narrative of a rogue element in the financial industry was shown to be inaccurate, and only revealed months later after an appropriate cooling off period.
IMO 'thetruther's putative view from the inside is useful even without supporting evidence. Not every assertion needs peer review, and the community doesn't always have the right to demand it. (That doesn't mean I'd make a significant decision in reliance on his unsupported comments, of course.)
Know what?