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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."
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.
Keep believing that, because one day very soon you will find the USA is lagging behind China, India, EU.
...The real news here should that IBM has (or had) something worth stealing!
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
weird I feel the same way about the USA. However that does not change the facts, China will overtake the USA within the next decade.
Anyone who is surprised that Donald Trump is putting anyone but Donald Trump first, second, third, and fourth, has deliberately ignored his past history. What evidence did he ever present that he was really going to act other than the same way he always had in the past, other than he gave his word that he would? His word and name that, incidentally, have been used to hawk all sorts of things ranging from badly overpriced to outright snake oil?
And that's not to say that you can't decide that his tendency to find any and every way to enrich himself, even at the expense of investors, suppliers, etc, still wasn't as bad as what you felt his opponent would bring - just don't kid yourself about who he is, and who he always has been.
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.
When it comes to those things, the USA is also way behind the rest of the civilised world. Parts of US cities, e.g. Detroit are basically abandoned, over 10 years after Katrina things are still not rebuilt. US "voter registration" laws in different states are there to block peoples right to vote. What you call corruption, others call "lobbying". Many schools are run down in the USA, and need armed guards to try and make them safe, and you still have school shootings. You have the highest prison population in the world (per 100,000) by a large margin Workers rights are not great in the USA compared to other countries. Your serious crime, murder, rape rates are higher than other 1st world countries. The USA, when compared to the rest of the 1st world does not fare that well at all.
Is that what they call virtual signalling?
"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.
Name a country that ISN'T a currency manipulator these days. All are hell-bent on devaluing their currency for the sake of exports and it's a full-on race to the bottom, with the citizens breaking the landing of the fiat chariot.
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
Well apart from the fact that GPFS or Spectrum Scale as they like to call it these days is a couple of orders of magnitude better than CEPH.
What puzzles me about this is that the licensing enforcement on GPFS is zero, nada none at all. You need a valid license to download the software but after that you just run mmlicense to say the node is licensed and bingo you are done. You could have purchased a couple of server license and be running 10 servers and 1000 nodes. It's not like the BSA can muscle their way into a Chinese government institution and demand to do a software audit. Sure you can't ring up IBM and get support but you can't do that with a hooky version complied from stolen source, and it's not like the GPFS source code is going to be easy to do self support on. It would likely be cheaper to just buy the support from IBM in the first place from the people who know and understand the code.
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.
Was he an H1-B visa holder? I wouldn't be surprised.
No, the west does not execute spies.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
No, the west does not execute spies.
That's not true; it just hasn't happened in a long time.
When you compare American whites with European countries the USA is equal to or better than Europe. Compare Apples to Apples, not Apples to Apples covered with feces.
The USA has a lot more minorities than the rest of "the 1st world" (read: white countries) so just wait until Merkel sends in a few million more refugees. You'll get there soon enough.
I can take you on a trip through the Rust Belt or the Appalachians to disabuse you of of that notion.
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.
Like the Aliexpress/alibaba App ?
I use lots of Chinese made stuff , buy in thousands a year for both work and personally, as do other people I know.
So feel free to go back to sleep because one day you are going to wake and find that you were wrong.