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US Company's China Employee Allegedly Stole Code To Help Local Government (csoonline.com)
Reader itwbennett writes: Xu Jiaqiang, a Chinese national, worked as a developer for an unnamed U.S. company's branch in China (a Reuters report says it's IBM) from November 2010 to May 2014, when he resigned voluntarily. A year later he was allegedly caught trying to sell stolen proprietary source code to U.S. undercover agents, who claimed they were starting a large-data storage company. The software is described in the original complaint as a key component of one of the world's largest scientific supercomputers and of commercial applications that require rapid access to large volumes of data. In December 2015, Xu was arrested by the FBI, alleged to have stolen for his own benefit and that of the National Health and Family Planning Commission in China, although no specific charges relating to actual transfer of the code to the National Health and Family Planning Commission are mentioned in the superseding indictment.
Unsurprising
From the article he stole the information for the Chinese government and was in New York when he tried to sell it again. So how is him being in New York make China a "local government"
Call it like it is the guy stole computer code and information for the Chinese government and one of its agencies.
If you are a software developer with any kind of marketable product and you hire foriegn nationals with or without H1B visas, prepare to have your code stolen. This guy got caught, but the other 99% don't...
Fuck.
this is common if you cooperate with china. They let you show how to do it and then they erect a second factory owned by the brother or the nephew or something. Ten years later you will be bought by that company.
And China wants to get the "free market" label. ROFL at this ridiculousness. OOXML is ten times more an open standard than china is a free market.
Remember the story where a Russian immigrant stole trade secrets from Goldman Sacs? Turned out it was open source code and it was uploaded to work on it from home?
Though the Xu was trying to sell it, I have a feeling that this is probably more of the anti-China that Slashdot has rather than really taking the time to talk about what is really going on.
And, National Health and Family Planning Commission in China? What is the link to that agency and the code?
Already got this...
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
There seems to be stories like this again and again, and all over the world you can find and buy one-off Chinese copies of U.S.-developed technology. At one point do we decide that cheap labor just isn't worth it?
source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/06/15/1358249/trent-reznor-youtube-is-built-on-the-back-of-stolen-content#comments
The real surprising thing is that he got caught.
The max penalty for treason is death. Maybe we can get trump to pull the switch.
Trump could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody. And he wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's like incredible.
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
This is probably in reference to GPFS, now re-branded (ugh) as "Spectrum Scale".
because he got greedy. Had he simply handed the code over to his Chinese government handler and move on, he would've been free to do this again else where. What an idiot.
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
the entire country('s politicians) is China's bitch. No other country are its politicians for sale to foreign interest more than the United States.
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
For some reason, the capacitor electrolyte fiasco some decade ago comes to mind...
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
Trump could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody. And he wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's like incredible.
There's a really obvious reason why he's so popular, so I don't think "incredible" is the right word to use.
A lot of people are facing complete ruin and are scared, holding their breath hoping that something will change.
Trump is the candidate for "change", and Clinton is the candidate for "stay the course".
I'm not a Clinton supporter, but I don't think that statement about Hillary is particularly controversial even among her supporters. She's definitely a political insider, is funded by moneyed interests, and her website has a list of issues that give a sense of "direction" without promising anything concrete. Typical of politicians for the last 50 years - nothing bad or unusual about that.
Trump has a list of 7 things that he will change, with a concrete list of changes for each. All of his proposed changes are aimed at making peoples' lives better.
People who are secure in their position, who have a job and don't see themselves being laid off or expect to find a new job quickly if they are laid off should vote for Hillary. There are a lot of these people in the country, and "stay the course" is the least risky choice for them to make.
People who are unemployed, struggling, or in fear of losing their situation should vote for Trump, because he's proposing to make changes.
As the theory goes, when you're doing well you should minimise risk - don't do anything that could change your situation. When you're doing poorly, you can tolerate more risk in the hopes that it might help.
So it really all boils down to the proportion of people in the country who are at-risk and scared, versus the proportion who think the current situation is "pretty good".
We're presented with a never-ending stream of depressing news about this here on Slashdot, so it's easy to believe that majority of the country might be shivering in fear hoping for something to change, but that might not be an accurate view.
"Change" or "stay the course"? The voters will probably decide this November.
Aleynikov, the programmer you're speaking of, said it "contained open-source code mingled with code that was proprietary to Goldman". He said that he uploaded it so that he could look at it later and remember how he did it. That's the story from his side. Goldman obviously has their side of the story too.
How much do you want to bet that the original company is still outsourcing development because it's more "cost effective"?
(assuming that company is still in business, of course)
Do I sound bitter after losing my last job to outsourcing? Noooooo......
If you are a Trump supporter it would not be a surprise. That's the kind of illiterate non-reasoning that Trump and his ignorant hoard specialize in.
By the way, we are not at war with China (are you aware of this?) so it is very unlikely that any spying a Chinese citizen could do would be a death penalty case.
Why is Snark Required?
If you are a Trump supporter it would not be a surprise. That's the kind of illiterate non-reasoning that Trump and his ignorant hoard specialize in.
"Hoard" is to stock or store something, "horde" is a group of people.
I'm a trump supporter.
There are lots of Indian companies that do government contracts "made in India" with massive stolen code from foreign companies that we stupid enough to outsource some small part of a system and share the big source code with the Indians. I know a German company that found a clone of their system running in India "implemented" by a former subcontractor (one of the big IT companies) that wrote some marginal interface but stole the entire codebase.
of trade secrets or technological espionage.
In most cases this is internal proprietary technology, some of it publicly available, but much of it institutional knowledge for in-house use in manufacturing and other industries.
I will leave it up to others to better describe the difference between that and the entertainment industry's products.
As did Apple, and probably a few other companies I am forgetting.
both of the places you mentioned as the only jobs left have automation programs in place to make 90+ percent of their workforces redundant, right?
I'd worry about a whole nation without jobs, but given the saber rattling on the eastern front I think there is a good chance a new round of depopulation is going to take place before this decade or the next is through.
What makes you say /. is anti-China?