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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."
I hope they're paying you for this and you don't really believe what you say. The US may not be doing great, but when it comes to healthcare, pensions, social security, civil liberties, equality, sustainability, workers rights, corruption, China is so far behind in the middle ages, it isn't even a contest.
That's why you see so many white elephants in China. It's much easier to pour concrete into awesome projects with high visibility, where people take home half the project budget in kickbacks. Changing the social and civil fabric of a society much more difficult than building some glitzy skyscrapers.
What does that even mean, aside from some esoteric numbers on graphs and metrics that put people to sleep?
Culturally, the Chinese will never over take the US - it will be a cold day in hell when US or EU kids wake up and think a Chinese app is the next big thing.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.