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.

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Common in china

[NotInHere]

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.

Re:Common in china

[Sax Russell 5449D29A]

Everyone operating in China is aware of this (hopefully). I've heard some funny stories how some companies are going as far as to leave intentionally broken blueprints laying around in their internal systems honeypot style.