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US govt announces arrest of ex Google engineer for alleged AI trade secret theft
- notamy 3y agoOriginal title was > US gov’t announces arrest of former Google engineer for alleged AI trade secret theft which was a few characters too long.
- PeterCorless 3y agoAlso on Bleeping Computer here: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-engineer-caught-stealing-ai-tech-secrets-for-chinese-firms/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-engineer...
- PeterCorless 3y ago"Ding did not inform Google about his affiliations with these companies and failed to disclose his travels to participate in investor meetings in China. On the contrary, Ding allegedly asked a colleague to periodically scan his entrance badge to make it appear that he was working from the U.S. Google office while he was in China." If you ever work for a badge-wearing company, DO NOT DO THIS. It's not a "favor." It's a great way to get fired.
- jstarfish 3y ago[dead]
- JumpCrisscross 3y agoOr, in this case, be found to be aiding and abetting an agent of foreign espionage.
- neom 3y agoMore here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39628842 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39628842
- ChrisArchitect 3y ago[dupe] Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39628842 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39628842 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39622842 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39622842
- bdjsiqoocwk 3y agoHow come these people are almost always Chinese? I mean I saw the headline and thought "probably Chinese". There's a great long piece about this chemist woman, forgot the name, who worked for these companies that make can lining to store food, and she was doing the exact same thing. Work for an American company, monetize the IP in China. It's a really fascinating story actually.
- bequanna 3y agoBecause China has the largest state sponsored program in the world devoted to IP theft. Some information about China’s “thousand talents plan” and how it works: https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/the-china-threat/chinese-talent-plans https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/the-chin...
- supriyo-biswas 3y ago> There's a great long piece about this chemist woman, forgot the name, who worked for these companies that make can lining to store food, and she was doing the exact same thing. Shannon You[1]. [1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-edtn/pr/phd-chemist-sentenced-168-months-conspiracy-steal-traded-secrets-economic-espionage https://www.justice.gov/usao-edtn/pr/phd-chemist-sentenced-1...
- mediumsmart 3y agoOh, it’s Arsetechnica, the ones that care about my privacy. Thank you but no thank you.
- alanwreath 3y agoout of the loop here
- mediumsmart 3y agoTheir cookie banner says accept or read more, no essential only button. I have them on 0.0.0.0 but not on iOS because I don’t know how to