US Company's China Employee Allegedly Stole Code To Help Local Government (csoonline.com) 49
Reader itwbennett writes: Xu Jiaqiang, a Chinese national, worked as a developer for an unnamed U.S. company's branch in China (a Reuters report says it's IBM) from November 2010 to May 2014, when he resigned voluntarily. A year later he was allegedly caught trying to sell stolen proprietary source code to U.S. undercover agents, who claimed they were starting a large-data storage company. The software is described in the original complaint as a key component of one of the world's largest scientific supercomputers and of commercial applications that require rapid access to large volumes of data. In December 2015, Xu was arrested by the FBI, alleged to have stolen for his own benefit and that of the National Health and Family Planning Commission in China, although no specific charges relating to actual transfer of the code to the National Health and Family Planning Commission are mentioned in the superseding indictment.
This is... (Score:2, Insightful)
Unsurprising
He got caught (Score:3)
because he got greedy. Had he simply handed the code over to his Chinese government handler and move on, he would've been free to do this again else where. What an idiot.
afraid to use the words. (Score:3)
Call it like it is the guy stole computer code and information for the Chinese government and one of its agencies.
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How about he was in China at the time he was employed? He stole it for "local government" because he was not in the U.S. yet. Until May 2015, he was trying to sell the code to U.S. undercover in the U.S. Then he came to NY in December 2015 and was arrested. Everything is on TFA...
Re: afraid to use the words. (Score:1)
We just need to figure out how to get guns into software, so it can defend itself.
FBI is China's Little Bitch (Score:2)
wrong (Score:2)
the entire country('s politicians) is China's bitch. No other country are its politicians for sale to foreign interest more than the United States.
Common in china (Score:3, Insightful)
this is common if you cooperate with china. They let you show how to do it and then they erect a second factory owned by the brother or the nephew or something. Ten years later you will be bought by that company.
And China wants to get the "free market" label. ROFL at this ridiculousness. OOXML is ten times more an open standard than china is a free market.
Re:Common in china (Score:5, Interesting)
Everyone operating in China is aware of this (hopefully). I've heard some funny stories how some companies are going as far as to leave intentionally broken blueprints laying around in their internal systems honeypot style.
Common in capitalist society (Score:3)
For some reason, the capacitor electrolyte fiasco some decade ago comes to mind...
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My circa 2003 motherboard would have to agree with that. :-)
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Unethical behavior in the past does not negate unethical behavior in the present.
A country stealing from a foreign corporation is not "karmic paybalck" for a corporation copying from another corporation.
Remember when the Russian stole from Goldman Sacs (Score:2, Interesting)
Remember the story where a Russian immigrant stole trade secrets from Goldman Sacs? [theguardian.com] Turned out it was open source code and it was uploaded to work on it from home?
Though the Xu was trying to sell it, I have a feeling that this is probably more of the anti-China that Slashdot has rather than really taking the time to talk about what is really going on.
And, National Health and Family Planning Commission in China? What is the link to that agency and the code?
No, and neither does he (Score:2)
Aleynikov, the programmer you're speaking of, said it "contained open-source code mingled with code that was proprietary to Goldman". He said that he uploaded it so that he could look at it later and remember how he did it. That's the story from his side. Goldman obviously has their side of the story too.
Old news (Score:1)
Already got this [reuters.com]...
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When we decide that jobs are important and that increasing profits for multinationals just won't work once the only jobs left are those at McDonalds and Walmart.
The max penalty for treason is death (Score:1)
The max penalty for treason is death. Maybe we can get trump to pull the switch.
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Trump could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody. And he wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's like incredible.
"Change" vs "stay the course" (Score:2, Insightful)
Trump could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody. And he wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's like incredible.
There's a really obvious reason why he's so popular, so I don't think "incredible" is the right word to use.
A lot of people are facing complete ruin [cnn.com] and are scared, holding their breath hoping that something will change.
Trump is the candidate for "change", and Clinton is the candidate for "stay the course".
I'm not a Clinton supporter, but I don't think that statement about Hillary is particularly controversial even among her supporters. She's definitely a political insider, is funded by moneyed interests, a
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If you are a Trump supporter it would not be a surprise. That's the kind of illiterate non-reasoning that Trump and his ignorant hoard specialize in.
By the way, we are not at war with China (are you aware of this?) so it is very unlikely that any spying a Chinese citizen could do would be a death penalty case.
"Hoard" versus "horde" (Score:2)
If you are a Trump supporter it would not be a surprise. That's the kind of illiterate non-reasoning that Trump and his ignorant hoard specialize in.
"Hoard" is to stock or store something, "horde" is a group of people.
I'm a trump supporter.
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Which puzzles me, because other than running it without a license I am not sure how having the source code to GPFS particularly helps given that end users are unlikely to have the specialist in depth knowledge of how the GPFS code works.
Even then the licensing for GPFS is completely open in it's enforcement, you just declare a node as sever or client, no actual checking going on. So buy a single server license and a handful of client nodes and you are good to go.
I guess one could read the code to determine