Can InfoPath data connections refer to lists on other farms?

A question has arisen regarding whether SP 2010 hosted InfoPath applications are able to access sharepoint lists on other farms.
For example, on the production farm we have SharePoint custom lists of authority data for approval chains, etc.
Trying to create mirror copies of these lists on the dev farm and qa farm is time consuming, and of course having to change the many data connections each time an InfoPath form is ready to be published to the new farm is a step ripe for error.
Since the majority of development changes do not touch the schema or contents of these lists, the developers believe that it would be idea to just point their dev and qa published applications to the production lists, so that no changes will be necessary.
There is, however, some concern that SP 2010 or InfoPath 2010 will just generate errors if this is done.

I would say performing a granular backup and restore of that specific list is a safe method. here is a good resource for that
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/russmax/archive/2009/10/21/sharepoint-2010-granular-backup-restore-part-1.aspx
Another method is saving the list as a template and importing the template to QA & Dev. Your method might also work, consuming a list through data connection to another list as long as configuration is right.
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