[TeMPOraL]

If there's a knowingly broken process, both sides of it are to blame. One party for using a broken process, the other for exploiting it.

Imagine you own a store with broken locks. A thief learns of that, and comes one night, and plunders your store. Yes, you'd be to blame for being irresponsible and stupid. But the thief would still be liable for theft.

[r_singh]

By this example, fraud is rampant across business[1], not just outsourcing.

Facebook, VW, Theranos and many many more.

[TeMPOraL]

Never said it isn't. Big and small. The amount of shit I've experienced myself, or had reported to me by friends and acquaintances is so large that I have a very low starting opinion on small businesses on things not strongly enforced by law. I've shared some more egregious examples on HN a few times, like a practice in grocery stores to wash stale meat with dish cleaner to be able to sell it as fresh. Yes, fraud is very much rampant across business.

[hereiskkb]

Yep. It is. Fraud across the spectrum.