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Second China-Bound Apple Car Worker Charged With Data Theft (bloomberg.com)
schwit1 shares a report from Bloomberg: An Apple hardware engineer was charged by the U.S. with stealing the iPhone maker's driverless car secrets for a China-based company, the second such case since July amid an unprecedented crackdown by the Trump administration on Chinese corporate espionage. Jizhong Chen was seen by a fellow Apple employee taking photographs Jan. 11 with a wide-angle lens inside a secure work space that houses the company's autonomous car project, about six months after he signed a strict confidentiality oath when he was hired, according to a criminal complaint in federal court in San Jose, California. Prosecutors said Chen admitted to taking the photos and backing up some 2,000 files to his personal hard drive, including manuals and schematics for the project, but didn't tell Apple he had applied for a job with a China-based autonomous vehicle company.
Keeps the uh, teacher doctor away?
There's a dwarf under the hood. Oldest trick in the book.
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Chinese steal.
"the iPhone maker"? What iPhone maker? Some guy named Brad? A machine that stamps out iPhones? Do you mean Apple? Yes? Then say Apple. This isn't a celebrity-trends blog, dipshit.
Is the use of the FBI as a private police force for Corporate America on civil matters.
This sounds like the same as the Waymo vs Uber case, though this guy hasnâ(TM)t reported to his new job. Was that Waymo employee arrested on criminal charges?
then the question is who did apple steal it from first?
then the question is who did apple steal it from first?
If you just follow a simple exercise in logic, you can find out easily.
We know that Apple is not producing a car, so the car technology Apple stole must have been from a company also not producing self-driving cars.
If we look at this large diagram of companies I have here (sorry, too large to reproduce in ASCII plus I think it has a curly quote in there somewhere so it wouldn't render right anyway), we can clearly see the only company not in active work on self driving cars is in fact Chuck E Cheese (ironic I know, given the advances in creepy animatronic AI they pioneered).
Now you can see why it is imperative China not get their hands on this non-car car tech; China's uses of technology by the state are creepy enough already, and we cannot allow China to beat us in the non-car production gap.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Chinese engineers working for American companies in their China office have been stealing trade secrets for years. There was a famous case about 10 years ago where a large network equipment manufacturer based in the Silicon Valley had their entire CVS and Subversion repository stolen. How they found out was the American company had put an Easter Egg in the code and when they poked the software running the network switched made by a Chinese company the software printed out "Copyright "
Which was the name of the American company.
This shit has been going on for years and no one seems to want to do anything about it. The top management only see the size of the Chinese market and, really, the management is only there to collect their stock grants and then they are off to the next sucker^h^h^h^h^h company.
Another day closer to redwood heaven
It's a culture thing. I've met plenty and they fall into distinct categories:
A) Paranoid
B) Insanely competitive
C) Both of the above.
And all of them are nuts about their homeland, so the fact that they do espionage for it is no suprise at all. They all do it, it's just how they're bought up, and that's a bit of a shame.
but calling it the trump administration is giving trump much too much credit.
In Chinese culture, lying, stealing, and cheating are not considered to be morally wrong. They're just strategies to get ahead.
The Chinese government has a goal to leap frog the US and become the #1 nation by 2025. They are doing this by targeting critical technologies and then either a) Stealing them b) Sending PHD students to US universities where the research is being done and stealing it 3) Sending engineers to work in the US to steal the technology.
For all you who want to defend China, I would remind you it is a brutal communist regime which imprisons and executes individuals who oppose it.
I was hoping some leftist would come out swinging for the Chinese. I wanted to see what kind of crazy shit they'd use to justify their self-destructive crush on China. I know they aren't going to come out full-Mao and just say "I'm far left and I love communism". Which seems to be the actual truth under the sheets. Here I'll throw some of your tropes out there to get you started. "Chinese imports help poor people who shop at Wal Mart." or "It's impossible for jobs to come back. Globalism makes them disappear into Asia forever. Impossible I say!" or how about "Free trading is the only way. Everything else will result in instant starvation. You have to let China rape you blind or we'll all starve." or "Americans don't want those jobs anyway." or "but but What will the poor private equity leeches use as a labor arbitrage if we don't have China?"
. . . to be served as the test passenger in experimental driver-less vehicles.
"Chinese imports help poor people who shop at Wal Mart."
The left does not support poor people "shopping", as that implies they still have to work in the capitalist system for a wage. Nay, the left would rather we all magically be given all the welfare we need, for free.
The left certainly doesn't support a megacorp like Walmart. If we must tolerate Walmart, well we have people like Bernie proposing we tax the them to pay for the poor's welfare.
"It's impossible for jobs to come back. Globalism makes them disappear into Asia forever. Impossible I say!"
As above, the left doesn't support capitalism. Globalism is just the natural progression of capitalism, with big megacorps being the primary beneficiaries. And again as above, the left doesn't support megacorps.
"Free trading is the only way."
The left? Supporting free trade? LOL
"Americans don't want those jobs anyway."
It's not the left who's using that as an excuse to hire more H1Bs. The left are the jobless welfare queens remember? They don't make the hiring decisions.
"but but What will the poor private equity leeches use as a labor arbitrage if we don't have China?"
The left? Defend private corporate welfare? LOLOLOLOLOL
TLDR: it's actually the right who loves China. Notice how even Trump wants to make a deal with them, instead of giving them the Iran treatment.
They're SHIT and will never work as advertised. Shhhh, don't tell anyone, not until we've made our money back!