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As I noted in another comment, state actors change the scale of incentives and disincentives in academic and corporate IP and data theft. A large corporation is
by stcredzero 7y ago
As I noted in another comment, state actors change the scale of incentives and disincentives in academic and corporate IP and data theft. A large corporation is a fearsome opponent. It never sleeps. It can avoid being tired for many decades at at time. It can hire an entire squad of private detectives to find you, and spending tons of money on lawyers is just normal operations for it. These also apply to large academic institutions, and often the IP and data are involved with academic/private consortiums. For these reasons, individuals are usually strongly deterred from such theft.
Add in state actors, however, and the potential cost/benefit equations change. A strong state actor has the power to shield a person from a multinational's wrath. It's not hard to steal such information. What's hard is getting away with it indefinitely.
Disclosure: I'm Asian and my wife was once a Chinese born academic in the US.
- tlear 7y agoIt is far more then that. State actor has people working for it who will serve as honey pots, it has people working for it who Will drug you stuff you in a box and send you back to the country. It has a huge capacity for physical violence of all kinds. Corps are innocent toddlers compared to nation states. It is a dual approach, we can shield you and also you parents house will not burn down “accidentally” plus lenience for that wayward cousin who will get couple years in comfy prison instead of 9mm to the back of the head.
- stcredzero 7y agoReplace most instances of "9mm to the back of the head" with a longer jail sentence at a more violent prison for the cousin, and you'd also have the US and other western powers.
- King-Aaron 7y agoWell I'd be fairly sure that there some cases of "X attended a meeting and then suddenly had a mysterious heart attack on the way home" which do happen within western powers...
- Ill_ban_myself 7y agoEmigration tells the whole story here. There’s no need to quibble about who kills more of their citizens, or who is more repressive. People are moving west, corporations with low moral standards are moving east.
- wtvanhest 7y agoThe story is long and complex. I dont know anything about the Chinese side, but we in the US have amassed the largest prison population on earth, by percent and absolute numbers. 100 years from now, my kid's kid's will be embarrassed that their grandfather didn't do more to stop the oppression.
- turk73 7y agoWe only have the largest because China executes so many.
- mc32 7y agoAlso, it seems the US is pretty bad at counterintelligence whereas Russia (and USSR before) are good at ferreting our spies. China is probably better than us at it if for no more reason than tracking their population better. Plus that incident a few years ago exposing double agents.