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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."
Ya ya ya been hearing that since I was a child
Been to China and India on multiple occasions, nice place to visit... Couldn't pay me enough to live in either
When it comes to those things, the USA is also way behind the rest of the civilised world.
US "voter registration" laws in different states are there to block peoples right to vote.
The USA, when compared to the rest of the 1st world does not fare that well at all.
Uh, you do realize that in most of the civilized world what you derisively call "voter registration" laws are the norm, right? The only way the USA is behind the civilized world in that regard is that we have idiots trying to claim that requiring an ID to vote disenfranchises people. Admittedly, it *does* disenfranchise the dead people who tend to vote D, but maybe we don't need their votes.
Do you have ESP?