Posted on 08/02/2018 11:22:53 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
Xiaoqing Zheng accused of using trade secrets to benefit his interest in Chinese companies
Prosecutors, in a statement, said that Zheng "used an elaborate and sophisticated means to remove electronic files containing GE's trade secrets involving its turbine technologies. ... Zheng is alleged to have used (encrypted technology) to hide data files belonging to GE into an innocuous looking digital picture of a sunset, and then to have emailed the digital picture, which contained the stolen GE data files, to Zheng's (private) email account."
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He is very smart and very dumb as he couldn't possibly think that GE and the CIA weren't on to him for years and tracking his every move to see how China theft works, who is involved and to what extent China is stealing high tech stuff.
I'm sure he's not the only one - this story SUPPORTS TRUMPS'S CLAIMS that China is playing unfair and we need to get their attention, perhaps thru tariffs.
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Amazing folks them Orientals
There so good at a-copying thangs!
Lousy thieves tho.
They have stolen billions, time to get our money back.
We have enough of their misfits, time for a merit based system.
President Pickles would have allowed free access and a VIP plane ride to China for him.
As soon as the check cleared.
This is called steganography. It takes advantage of the fact that in a digital photo, there are some bits which either aren't don't make much difference to photo quality. So you can re purpose those bits to other things. If you have enough of them, you can embed other items (text, even files) hidden inside the picture. But realistically what's embedded can't be very large (like a CAD file unless the original picture is gigantic since you're hiding it inside the picture. It's good for hiding photos or text files though. I did some experiments with this in the mid 90s so it's not new by any means, nor is it all the sophisticated, frankly I had a tool that did it for me 20+ years ago that came on a disk in the back of a book I bought. But it is somewhat obscure.
I think I once read that terrorists use this technique to hide their plans on message forums by embedding them in photos that they post.
So you're telling me the FBI is inept - you knew about this 20 years ago and the FBI is puzzled by it - figures.
I recall reading about it 20 years ago.
I figured it was something that would be checked on any account deemed suspect.
The Chinese arrested and executed at least 18 of our CIA operatives working in China. Executed, as in dead.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spies-espionage.html
Quite plausibly as a result of HRC’s unsecure server. She assumed the office of SOS when? 2010?
When were our operatives arrested?
Starting 2010. A mere coincidence.
But it was Hillary, people around her or who she has information on die all the time.
Pickles would say “we never lost anybody in China”.
I know people who have worked in IT for GE, these folks are not slackers, I would call them computer bomars (experts).
So I have a hard time believing much of this story, sounds like GE is inept in the story but I have to believe they were all over this guy. I also don’t believe it was only 2 years ago that they prevented downloads to thumbdrives, seriously? I think this was an elaborate “sting” and they were happy to let this go on as long as they were getting great information.
This guy is an “American” citizen, what many would call a “Paper American” (because he has papers indicating he is American).
He knows nothing about this country or its norms, values or traditions, yet here he is, a “citizen”, ripping this country off.
He has no loyalty to this country, and why would he be expected to? He’s Chinese, from China. He’s loyal to his race, not what is written in the Constitution.
Why is he working with GE in mission critical areas?
This is yet another example of where those advocating Civic Nationalism (that is, the US is based on allegiance to the idea of the Zeroth Amendment - Give me your poor, huddled masses....) are wrong, yet again.
How much more evidence do you civic nationalists need that Civic Nationalism is wrong, wrong, and wrong.
Stop immigration now.
H1-B!
You gotta love it. Stealing the intellectual property Americans don’t want to steal!
End that friggin’ program.
They STILL cannot make a decent jet engine.
And it has nothing to do with design. They have all the best designs in the world on file.
It’s the culture of manufacturing and quality control they struggle with.
It’s not the what, it’s the how.
We have a lot of H1Bs where I work.
I encrypt everything, even down to the individual file level.
I don’t trust anyone.
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