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Ex-IBM Employee Guilty of Stealing Secrets For China (fortune.com)
An anonymous reader quotes Fortune:
A former developer for IBM pled guilty on Friday to economic espionage and to stealing trade secrets related to a type of software known as a clustered file system, which IBM sells to customers around the world. Xu Jiaqiang stole the secrets during his stint at IBM from 2010 to 2014 "to benefit the National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China," according to the U.S. Justice Department. In a press release describing the criminal charges, the Justice Department also stated that Xu tried to sell secret IBM source code to undercover FBI agents posing as tech investors. (The agency does not explain if Xu's scheme to sell to tech investors was to benefit China or to line his own pockets).
Part of the sting involved Xu demonstrating the stolen software, which speeds computer performance by distributing works across multiple servers, on a sample network. The former employee acknowledged that others would know the software had been taken from IBM, but said he could create extra computer scripts to help mask its origins.
At one point 31-year-old Xu even showed undercover FBI agents the part of the source code that identified it as coming from IBM "as well as the date on which it had been copyrighted."
Part of the sting involved Xu demonstrating the stolen software, which speeds computer performance by distributing works across multiple servers, on a sample network. The former employee acknowledged that others would know the software had been taken from IBM, but said he could create extra computer scripts to help mask its origins.
At one point 31-year-old Xu even showed undercover FBI agents the part of the source code that identified it as coming from IBM "as well as the date on which it had been copyrighted."
He could have just used Ceph and stayed out of jail.
Say it aint so!
China executes the spies it finds.
China got what it wanted and this guy will spend a few years clothed, housed and fed by the taxpayer before retiring as a people's hero with a medal in China.
Why would I trust anything written by the failing New York Times?
Couldn't make a grilled cheese sandwich without copying it first, why am I not surprised
China is our enemy. This proves that they are our enemy. Trump should have labeled China as the currency manipulators that they are. That would go a long way to solving problems like this.
They are working for us now? So the Nazis weren't paying enough or did they just jump ship when the found out Hitler wasn't going to win. IBM we will never forget who's side you were in in WW2.
god damn you are a fucking retard
Got it, no Russians.
...The real news here should that IBM has (or had) something worth stealing!
VMware/EMC/Dell (who owns VMware now - Dell), fired all of it's developers in the USA and hired Chinese replacements in China.
Had the USA workers train their Chinese replacements.
Nothing ever came out of that...but I refuse to use VMware anymore.
All of the software coming out of China in telecommunications gear has been stolen and used down to the typographical errors and misspellings in the output.
only love can conquer hate
Steal enough and anyone can be "ahead".
So in China, they SHOT any US agents/spies they caught? And this guy? He'll get 20 years, maybe, and an internet connection so he can carry on.
BUT DIVERSITY!!!!!!!
"Part of the sting involved Xu demonstrating the stolen software, which speeds computer performance by distributing works across multiple servers, on a sample network. " This has been done for years.
When it comes to those things, the USA is also way behind the rest of the civilised world.
You can find examples where that is true - as you mentioned Detroit, and places like Chicago or New York.
But not every place in the U.S. is run solely by Democrats. Across most of the rest of the country, the people are better balanced, the corruption FAR less than pretty much any place in Europe (not sure what else you might mean by First World that would be any better).
Many schools are run down in the USA, and need armed guards to try and make them safe
Again, not many, just some in the inner cities that are - again - run my Democrats. Other places in the U.S. manage to integrate children of different races without issue.
The USA, when compared to the rest of the 1st world does not fare that well at all.
Only if you do not separate out where the times occur, and to who... something forbidden in todays PC climate. But you can find that data if you REALLY want to know the truth. I have a feeling it is not the truth you seek however.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Heard so many of these stories over the years that it really makes me wonder, why the hell would any big company want to hire any Chinese. I'm sure people from other cultural backgrounds do espionage too, but for the Chinese it seems to be a national sport.
Was he an H1-B visa holder? I wouldn't be surprised.
Unlucky dude: Trump was not in office in those days... And on top of that this dude did not spy for the Russians.
This should be a *civil* case. Why are the FBI and the Justice Department wasting their time on this? It's not the government's job to enforce these companies' ridiculous proprietary, closed-source license agreements.