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Ex-Apple Worker Charged With Stealing Self-Driving Car Trade Secrets (reuters.com)
U.S. authorities on Monday charged a former Apple employee with theft of trade secrets, alleging that the person downloaded a secret blueprint related to a self-driving car to a personal laptop and later trying to flee the country, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court. From a report: The complaint said that the former employee, Xiaolang Zhang, disclosed intentions to work for a Chinese self-driving car startup and booked a last-minute flight to China after downloading the plan for a circuit board for the self-driving car. Authorities arrested Zhang on July 7 at the San Jose airport after he passed through a security checkpoint. "Apple takes confidentiality and the protection of our intellectual property very seriously," Apple said in a statement. "We're working with authorities on this matter and will do everything possible to make sure this individual and any other individuals involved are held accountable for their actions."
Are you still bad because he won, or because he is still #winning?
Industrial espionage does not? What if it was a board or a program you had worked on and spent hours coding and engineering?
For safety's sake.
I'll take "things Trump hasn't done" for $500, Alex
They will get the truth out of you one way or another they have ways to make you talk...
1) give them an iPhone and tell them they are not tracking it.. you know they tell the truth so you can trust them...
2) make you watch endless Steve jobs keynote speeches...
He was just trying to be that great artist jobs was always talking about. Stealing and copying is the apple motto.
I'll take "things Trump hasn't done" for $500, Alex
The answer is: "The Wall" and "Lock her up"
He was just trying to pull a Levandowski. All he has to do now is found a new self-driving car company. in China.
Or maybe this act was done on Levandowski's behalf....
-- Political fascism requires a Fuhrer.
Apple maps on a self-driving car scare me.
Where the hell are we?
I don't know, but aren't the car's rounded edges beautiful?
Claerly
it is morally wrong to call on the violence of the state to attack someone for sharing.
If it's not yours to share then it's not sharing, it's theft.
It all sounds very convincing ... but the fact that the evidence which directly lead to his arrest was a PCB design makes me just a bit suspicious. We're a couple decades removed from the point where a PCB design had any chance of showing important IP.
Stealing technologies and pretend it's theirs.
Because youâ(TM)ve done something wrong
Don't worry there will be no trade with China in a few months with the Trade War.
I'm more impressed that the file access audit flagged an alarm that resulted in a manhunt! Damn!!!
Now only if Experian had such a scheme in place to nail the hacker/s
If there is anything I hate more than Apple Fanbois...It's Fucking Butthurt Historic Apple Fanbois who still worship the Apple II today.
Fuck Woz and fuck Woz worshippers. For goodness sake it's like people still talking about Microsoft stealing from Apple in its early days.... it's irrelevant now you fucking dinosaurs.... time to move on.
Wondering what the legal justification is of arresting someone at an airport based on statements from an employer. Doesn't seem to meet the grounds for felony IP infringement as that requires distribution (which wasn't mentioned or proved-- besides if he distributed it electronically he wouldn't need the laptop).
He copied something illegally. Courts seemingly are required to prove it's a felony.
Must be nice to be so rich and powerful in a city you can just call the cops to do what you want.
A Chinese worker turns out to be a technology-spy.
I'm shocked!
What if it was a board or a program Xiaolang Zhang had worked on and spent hours coding and engineering?
Most other things though are looking good. That punk ass traitor will die in Federal prison and never make it to his multiple state sentences.
Actually an incident like this plays precisely into Trump's view of China. Watch his tariff program go into hyperdrive.
What if it was a board or a program Xiaolang Zhang had worked on and spent hours coding and engineering?
It wasn't his. He was an employee. There's a tradeoff. You get a paycheck regardless of whether your work/project turns out to be commercially successful, you are not at risk, but you retain no ownership of your work.
You want to share in the upside? Go work for a startup, invest your life savings, invest the money of family and friends. Be at risk. Then you get ownership and the bounty if successful.
If he distributed it electronically he might not get paid. After all, he is a thief, why would the new venture want him around? Better to steal from the thief and be done with him. Also no paper trail, or blockchain trail, of payment to him so there is some plausible deniability that the new venture was behind it, just a rouge working speculatively on his own..
So, two of his less important promises.
I thought they gave up on the self-driving-car stuff. Any IP they have would be third tier at best.
A chink in the armor
And are you still avoiding to take responsability for the fact that the U.S. is now governed by a child rapist, among other things, because of trumptards like you ?
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone, and I still wouldn't lose any voters". Yep, that pretty much sums up everything you need to know about Trump supporters.
Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, I'm being repressed!
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Actually an incident like this plays precisely into Trump's view of China. Watch his tariff program go into hyperdrive.
China is probably the only country Trump even kind of understands besides this one, because he does so much business there. As much as I personally hate the guy (and his policies on immigration, corporations, and the environment) he's not wrong about China on basically any level. The game is rigged, they do plan to run the world just like every other big nation, and tariffs (and their other business policies) are the problem.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
If there's still a copy there it isn't theft.
Nothing was stolen. It was merely copied.