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U.S. Says Accused Apple Secrets Thief Had Patriot Missile File
- LifeLiverTransp 7y ago? Are Patriot missiles really protect worthy tech- after the saudi arabian - yemen missile fiasco? If technology does not work- one could argue, its not worth protecting and secrecy. https://www.dailysabah.com/defense/2018/03/29/us-patriot-missile-defense-system-may-be-failing-in-saudi-arabia-and-elsewhere https://www.dailysabah.com/defense/2018/03/29/us-patriot-mis...
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- nsporillo 7y agoWhy innovate if you can wait for someone else to and simply steal the result of expensive research and development?
- tqkxzugoaupvwqr 7y agoThis would mean China is always a step behind. China wants to become the leading country. To achieve that in the shortest time span possible, they copy whatever they can, learn from it and build upon it. In short, China copies, then innovates.
- CharlesColeman 7y ago> This would mean China is always a step behind. China wants to become the leading country. To achieve that in the shortest time span possible, they copy whatever they can, learn from it and build upon on it. In short, China copies, then innovates. They don't necessarily have to innovate to become a leading country. They could do that by achieving mere technological parity, but producing it at a larger scale. For instance, if China slavishly copied all US weapons designs and went to war with the US, China would win. It has more population and a larger industrial base, which means more soldiers in uniform and more equipment on the battlefield. The slavish copying would neutralize the US "quality" advantage, turning the conflict into one about "quantity."
- madengr 7y agoThe article doesn’t mention if he had a security clearance when working for the defense contractor.
- openasocket 7y agoI'd be shocked if he managed to get a clearance, since he apparently has Chinese citizenship.
- hangonhn 7y agoI don't know how the US would know this when doing his clearance check. It's not as if the US can call up China and ask to verify. And if they do provide that answer, should the US trust it? The whole national origin thing, though, seems to be a red herring because there are plenty of Americans of Chinese birth who do not spy for China and there have been cases of non-Chinese born Americans who've sold the US out to various different countries, including China.
- openasocket 7y ago> I don't know how the US would know this when doing his clearance check. It's not as if the US can call up China and ask to verify. And if they do provide that answer, should the US trust it? Presumably when he entered the US he did so with a Chinese passport, and applied for his visa from China. It wouldn't be difficult to determine that he was a Chinese citizen, unless he used false papers and a fake identity from a third country, which didn't happen in this case. > The whole national origin thing, though, seems to be a red herring because there are plenty of Americans of Chinese birth who do not spy for China Well, that's the standard for security clearance. There's a variety of reasons why you wouldn't want to give clearance to someone foreign-born. When you evaluate someone for a clearance one of the biggest things you look for is potential weaknesses. For instance, someone with a gambling problem and lots of gambling debts shouldn't be trusted because they would be vulnerable to bribery. If someone has family or friends living in another country, then that country's government could extort that person by threatening their family and friends with arrest.
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- zer0faith 7y agoCan someone explain why China is hell bent on stealing IP from nations and companies?
- save_ferris 7y agoBecause it’s worth a ton of money and saves them the time of doing the R&D themselves.
- zer0faith 7y agoThen why doesn't someone hold them accountable for this type of garbage.
- Spooky23 7y agoBecause the world outsourced the production of everything to China to save some bucks, and you cannot sanction them as a result. It's beyond electronics -- you cannot manufacture commodities varying from bras to certain chemicals without China. US historians will not treat the people running the US from 1975-2005 well.
- meddlepal 7y agoHow? Are you willing to fight a war with China?
- shadowgovt 7y agoAccountability tends to come in terms of sanctions. But even sanctions are hard to maintain against the nation with the single highest count of human population; that's a market corporations positively salivate over tapping.
- djohnston 7y agoThe fact that Raytheon is hiring mainland-born engineers to work anywhere near the Patriot missile system is basically malicious incompetence EDIT I take it all back. There is nothing wrong with this.
- saagarjha 7y agoDiscriminating solely on country of origin is illegal, I'm pretty sure.
- djohnston 7y agoFor critically sensitive defense contracts? I would hope not.
- saagarjha 7y agoTo be clear, you're saying that we should discriminate against naturalized citizens, which is directly opposed to the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
- EpicEng 7y agoNot the OP, but I would say that yes, sometimes the risk is just too high. There's no inherent right to be granted a security clearance. To your point though, I'm not sure how a blanket ban of e.g. naturalized citizens from country X jives with anti-discrimination law. If I had a better internet connection at the moment I'd look into it. iirc, I believe there is a national security exception, and there are obviously others. As a man, go ahead and try to apply for a position as a stripper at a male oriented club, or as a waiter at Hooters. The Christian Coalition of <whatever> isn't required to hire atheists.
- shadowgovt 7y agoIn general yes, though there are some significant carve-outs for projects of military sensitivity. But the legal tension between antidiscrimination and mandatory state-security-derived discrimination is there.
- tomatotomato37 7y agoWhat I'm wondering is that will the inevitable military espionage charge going to be added to the apple case or pursued in a separate case?
- philip1209 7y ago> They also note that the federal office that supervises defendants on probation has concluded monitoring is no longer necessary because Chen has complied with all the conditions of his release and found full-time employment. Wow, a company hired him? That surprises me.
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