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Beau says:
A US citizen born in China allegedly copied sensitive information related to infrared sensors, raising concerns about national security technology and shady practices involving private companies.
Government officials, security experts.
The potential consequences of the stolen information and the need for increased oversight and security measures.
#NationalSecurity #TradeSecrets #China #US #PrivateCompanies
Well, howdy there, internet people.
It's Bo again.
So today we are going to talk about China and the United
States, and the game, so to speak.
We'll talk about blueprints and sensors and space-based
programs and talent programs and all kinds of things because
it appears that somebody was picked up, this person,
currently a US citizen, but was born in China.
And this person is alleged to have been employed
by a private company that is just listed
as the victim company.
Their name has been withheld.
And this person was copying trade secrets.
The files in question were, quote, allegedly transferred,
include blueprints for sophisticated infrared sensors designed for use in space-based systems
to detect nuclear missile launches and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles and blueprints
for sensors designed to enable U.S. military aircraft to detect incoming heat-seeking
missiles and take countermeasures, including by jamming the missile's infrared tracking ability.
Yeah, that's important stuff, obviously.
This is higher level stuff.
It is interesting to me that all of it is being treated as trade secret so far.
That may change because according to the U.S. Attorney's Office out there, the person in
question had previously sought to provide the People's Republic of China with information
to aid its military, stole sensitive and confidential information related to detecting nuclear missile
launches and tracking ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
Okay, so this is information that if it got into a hostile adversarial nation, obviously
would cause problems.
There are also allegations in some of the reporting about the suspect having been involved
and talent programs. That's exactly what it sounds like. And those programs are run, in this case,
by the Chinese government with the desire to recruit people and give them financial and social
incentives to bring their talents to China. Yeah, the number of files in question is at least
1800 it looks like by some reporting up to 3600. My guess is there's going to be a defining line
like something happened and 1800 more were taken. We don't have a lot of specifics on that yet but
the files according to the allegations were transferred from a work laptop to personal
storage devices. There is no word as to whether or not that information went further than those
storage devices yet. This is probably going to evolve into a larger story, and will cast
a lot of light on some shady practices by both the U.S. and the Chinese government
when it comes to not just talent programs and stuff like that, but also how private companies
sometimes are more involved with national security technology
than most of the public might believe.
Anyway, it's just a thought.
Y'all have a good day.
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