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The interesting part, other than fitting into the "Chinese IP theft" narrative, is that: > [He] removed electronic files with company trade secrets involving i
by 07d046 8y ago
The interesting part, other than fitting into the "Chinese IP theft" narrative, is that:
> [He] removed electronic files with company trade secrets involving its turbine technologies and hid data files in a digital photograph of a sunset. Prosecutors say he then emailed the picture to his email account.
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/08/01/us/ap-us-general-electric-investigation.html https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/08/01/us/ap-us-general...
Edit: Thanks for the downvotes?
- faitswulff 8y agoSounds like steganography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
- autoon 8y agoThere are lots of bias in the comments. Some blame culture, which is wrong. This is a simple case, just like Uber waymo lawsuit. https://www.wired.com/story/uber-waymo-lawsuit-settlement/ https://www.wired.com/story/uber-waymo-lawsuit-settlement/ Lots of Chinese companies don't steal IP and invest heavily in R&D, and they want to contribute. On Github, many contributors are from China.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoChina has very strategic reasons to catch up in jet turbines (semiconductors is the other one), so a lot of state money and resources are directed their. Software IP is also a problem, but it is much easier to reverse engineer or simply replicate the research (all published, open source, etc...) that IP theft isn’t very necessary. They aren’t closely guarded state secrets like jet turbine production is.
- autoon 8y agoI think your conclusion is too broad. There is difference between China Government and general Chinese. I don't believe every Chinese companies want to steal from others. When you draw a conclusion, you need to distinguish facts and thinking.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoI’m not sure what this has to do with my comment. But yes, the Chinese government is specifically looking to acquire foreign jet turbine technology for very obvious military reasons. So that will manifest through SOEs or very well connected private companies.
- mistermann 8y ago> When you draw a conclusion, you need to distinguish facts and thinking. When thinking, be wary of the mind appending its own ideas on to other's words, like ", and by the way, every X does this too, so therefore you should consider every instance an enemy."
- hugh4life 8y ago"There are lots of bias in the comments. Some blame culture, which is wrong." Regardless of culture, no other nationality really has near the opportunity to profit by stealing technology and returning with it to their homeland.
- rhencke 8y agoI'm not so sure about that. We in the US certainly did such to England with cotton mills. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater
- cascom 8y agoA nation state (whose population’s ethnicity is mostly one and the same) undertakes a massive and state sponsored campaign of corporate and military espionage, predominantly via the theft of secrets. They get caught numerous times red handed, and in most cases the thefts are perpetrated by people of the ethnicity of that state actor. You decide that you don’t want to be a victim of such an attack - using the ethnicity of that sate actor as heuristic for likelihood to commit that theft is pretty rational - despite the fact that the actual odds of being a vicitim might be quite low (unless you make aircraft engines, Aircraft carriers, or any thing else high on their “shopping list”). The point being if the likelihood that the average employee is a spy is 10^-7 and one of the of state actor’s ethnicity is 10^-6, on an individual basis it is essentially useless in making decisions about individuals but I know where I would spend my time if I was head of corporate security...
- nova22033 8y ago>Lots of Chinese companies don't steal IP Are you seriously going with the "what about all the Chinese who didn't steal IP" defense?
- Alex3917 8y agoSomeone should make a new database engine for Postgres that has stores all the data by embedding it steganographically in images and then automatically uploading them to imgur. They could then be submitted to Reddit for faster cacheing at edge locations.
- robbyt 8y agoInteresting idea, but since imgur recompresses photos, so I'm not sure this would work.
- aiyodev 8y agoDon’t let it get to you. I often find the most useful posts are heavilly downvoted on HN. Thank you for your contribution. Ignore the jerks who who have nothing better to do.
- code_duck 8y agoI imagine that this was downvoted because of the reference to a supposed “Chinese IP theft’ narrative”, which is not a useful contribution.
- Kadin 8y agoDownvoted for mentioning it, or downvoted for putting scare quotes around it?
- code_duck 8y agoJust because it’s inherently contentious.
- corey_moncure 8y agohttps://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-spy-revealed-as-senator-dianne-feinsteins-driver_2613389.html https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-spy-revealed-as-senato...
- code_duck 8y agoSee? The topic spurred a reply with a link to an article about a politician. The way politics works in the US currently, no matter what that article says, some people agree with it, and some people will not believe it. I’m not positing an opinion on China - merely analyzing the voting tendencies of the HN community.
- corey_moncure 8y agoThis is an article about a Chinese spy, dated yesterday. There are many many like it. I don't care about the politician. It's a direct refutation of your allegation that the "Chinese IP Theft Narrative" is contentious.