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US Steel Says China Is Using Cyber Stealth To Steal Its Secrets (npr.org)
An anonymous reader writes: U.S. Steel Corp. filed a trade complaint with the International Trade Commission: "The Chinese industry has formed a cartel that sets purchase and sale prices, and controls production and export volumes to target export markets. The Chinese industry has used its government to steal U.S. Steel's closely guarded trade secrets and uses those trade secrets to produce advanced steel products it could not make on its own." The steelmaker based in Pittsburgh argues its Chinese rivals must be investigated and that they will "use every tool available to fight for fair trade." The ITC has 30 days to review the complaint and determine whether or not it's worth investigating. In the meantime, China's Commerce Ministry said the complaints "have no factual basis," urging the ITC to reject U.S. Steel's case. The investigation will likely take a while if the ITC decides to proceed with an investigation, as they'll be dealing with three separate issues: price fixing, false labeling to avoid duties, and theft of trade secrets.
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usa imposed 266% duty on chinese steel imports in march.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-...
seems that failed to help push overpriced bad products
Sure China likes to commit industrial espionage. Everyone know that. However, when are corporations (individuals) going to stop hiding behind laws--in the hopes that they will save them--and start taking responsibility for their own security? When in the history of the world has a law stopped a sufficiently motivated criminal?
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Just don't pretend you've a right to the high road. Chances are, your gov't engages in this subterfuge, too.
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From TFA:
"The Chinese industry has formed a cartel that sets purchase and sale prices, and controls production and export volumes to target export markets." But then it added a 21st century twist: "The Chinese industry has used its government to steal U.S. Steel's closely guarded trade secrets and uses those trade secrets to produce advanced steel products it could not make on its own."
Of course a real investigation takes some time, 30 days to even decide whether to pursue an investigation. Meanwhile Chinese Baghdad Bob only takes zero days to do his own complete investigation into the matter before he's able to assert with total confidence that none of it's true.
Unless of course he's nothing but a lying propagandist whose quotes aren't worth the paper they're not even printed on.
Humans have been making steel for nearly 4000 years, and the Chinese have been making steel since the Warring States in like 400 BC, when Americans were still living in caves. So what trade secrets could we possibly have that they'd want?
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you have been stealing secrets for a few centuries now
Really? Really?! You could have fooled me with all those US steel engineers flying out with specs and plans and installing new hardware and software and generally doing just about everything to move the entire fucking industrial supply chain out to China to cut down on labour costs. Is there a single thing that US steel manufacturers didn't teach their Chinese sub-contractors to do over the last 20 years? Out of curiosity. Indulge me here.
Why do companies put their most secret and important intellectual property (IP) on servers connected to the Internet? What they should do is put phony, but looking somewhat reasonable, IP on their "secure" servers. The IP thieves should have some significant difficulty getting at it to make them feel like it's the real stuff. When they spend millions or billions building a factory to duplicate the stuff and then find out it was bogus, so much the better. Maybe the thieves will stop stealing and spend their money and time on innovation.
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...except for the whole trade show cret thing. That's how trade secrets work, their only protection is secrecy. Loose that and the protection is worthless.
Maybe if American companies didn't put their most sensitive information on servers maintained by cheap out of country IT workers and protect said data with cheap off the shelf hardware configured by the cheapest IT staff they can lay hands on they would not find themselves being literally put out of business by their lesser competition.
I'm shocked we managed to get a Tariff through. It's got nothing to do with bad products. 266% is not enough when they treat their workers as disposable and spew poison into the air. If we go back to doing that we could compete too. I think they call it "Race to the Bottom".
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A headline should be for something new and unexpected?
We don't want to spend the resources to properly secure our data and infrastructure, so we're going to whine about it, instead, and hope we can get someone else (like the US taxpayers) to solve the problem we've created for ourselves.
You can sue someone for "misappropriating" your trade secrets under US law, as long as you take reasonable precautions to keep it a secret.
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> and uses those trade secrets to produce advanced steel products it could not make on its own
Airbus *cough* Boeing *cough*
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So, China is steeling trade secrets. The kinds of secrets Patents were invented to protect. Since the steel companies didn't try to protect their inventions in the ways set up that greatly benefit corporations, they deserve to lose them to the Public Domain (where trade secrets lost end up). The people of the US are better off, now that we can legally use the same tech. It's corporate greed. They didn't want to have it exclusively for only 14+ years, so kept it secret until they lost it. They gambled and lost, and had the intention to keep it hidden forever.
Further proof that IP laws don't work.
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If USS trade secrets are so very valuable, why are they hanging out on the internet?
Whether the Chinese hacked their network - or not - is irrelevant.
This is a simple case of incompetent management by USS.
If I were a USS stockholder, I'd be dancing the Icahn two-step about now.
...that somebody came along and stole all the technology US Stelle looted from Stelco in Canada, and moved down to their US plants.
Now if China found a way to steal pensions, too, it would really be a case of poetic justice.
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US Steel lied to every single person involved with their purchase of Stelco steel company, and has dragged out the case for so long, while people I know, and their families, get shafted. http://www.thespec.com/news-st.... I hate chinese/russian hackers as much as the next guy, but I could care less about US Steel and their scummy tactics.
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I find it hard to believe a company making steel would have any interest in US Steel's "trade secrets". Their production is hopelessly outdated and they only exist because of decades of Good Ol' American Protectionism.
These american steel producers do understand china invest heavily in science? As in lets learn how world actually work and make better products.. That means China has increasing technological advancing cycle... Its not anymore just hey lets produce our bad product cheap in China country..
China is not the underdeveloped third world country it used to be 50-years ago. Yes you can still manufacture cheap there, flip side of that coin is actually high tech stuff... half the damn planets uses China manufactured phones, etc...
Besides US does same thing with NSA, steal trade and business secrets and hand them out to american companies for unfair business advantage...
the chinese will investigate the matter , find themselves not guilty and reprimand the staff involved. Oh wait that is just America on war crimes.
from China, where it was invented in the 9th century, and they've been using it for a couple of centuries without paying a single cent in royalties. What about ore refinement and manufacturing of steel, did you invent that too? Oh right, you didn't. Bullshit as usual from the sewer outlets that their media and propaganda machines are.
But american exceptionalism! How dare they to do unto us like we do unto everybody.
Steel is real easy to make - no secrets to be stolen.
USA's problem is that the buyers want cheap cheap and never ask or think about quality.
An electron microscope shows up heat treatments, and you can determine what additives or impurities are in the steel and their percentages
Trouble is steel mill hate paying for additives, or slow, even cooling, or cooking off impurities.
The thought of slowing production down is unthinkable?
A lot of stuff coming into the USA is crap steel often made from scrap steel, and the dregs into re-bar.
The ultimate in irony: an American company complaining about industrial espionage by other countries.
Globalist free-traders wanted to import Chinas thieved cost-benefit. Any and all. Given evil humans do the consequences surprise you? Suck it up "free market" libertoon fools; when politics flip and payback comes due, midnight knocks on the door get popular. You will have earned the iron boot-heel: wall, blindfold, fag, 5 minutes .....
To US Steal, the defense industry, US BIG BUSINESS, and DOD that don't want your secrets stolen, IT is a niece thing but not necessary thing to do your business.
If you don.'t want it stolen then don't do computers.