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."

Comments

The Chinese

[Osgeld]

Couldn't make a grilled cheese sandwich without copying it first, why am I not surprised

Re:The Chinese

[drinkypoo]

Keep believing that, because one day very soon you will find the USA is lagging behind China, India, EU.

They've been saying that for decades. But they still shit in the street in India and most Chinese still live like peasants while whole cities sit empty because China won't let their people have things unless they are well-connected and pay all the right bribes. They have no meaningful consumer protection laws, you can be executed for cheating on your taxes, and the nail that sticks up gets hammered down. This is not an environment that rewards creativity. That's probably also why a larger percentage of China's "scientific" papers are fakes than anyone else's.

You have to look in the right places

[SuperKendall]

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.