Programmer Admits Stealing US Gov't Accounting Software Source Code

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from NetSecurity.org: "A Chinese computer programmer that was charged with stealing the source code of software developed by the U.S. Treasury Department pleaded guilty to the charge on Tuesday. The 33-year-old Bo Zhang, legally employed by a U.S. consulting firm contracted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, admitted that he took advantage of the access he had to the Government-wide Accounting and Reporting Program (GWA) in order to copy the code onto an external hard disk and take it home." Just such things make me think that the default setting for software created with public money should be released with source code anyhow, barring context-specific reasons that it shouldn't be.

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Yes, release the source.

[WindBourne]

the default setting for software created with public money should be released with source code anyhow

You American pigs need to release more of your tech and software to the world. It is wrong that you deprive us of that work. Please hand over all of your code for military operations and launch codes as well.

What do you mean that you will not do it? Well, not a problem. We will simply put backdoors into your chips, steal your code from on-line (thank you MS), put 10's of 1000's of spies in the west and even get your companies to move here and give us the patents to be able to sell back to the west with cheaper versions.

Die, Western Pigs
Oh, have a nice day.

Wen Jiabao