Chinese battery expert is charged with stealing trade secrets from US employer

Re:Chinese battery expert is charged with stealing trade sec... by burfog on Saturday December 22, 2018 @01:19PM (#18741751)

Well, unvote them, because this makes no sense: "He could not have ever exfiltrated that data to begin with as he gave the drive back"

Think about it. The USB device was for transferring data to something else. That might have been a personal device with a cellular data plan.

Sure, he gave back the USB drive. He didn't physically take that to China, or intend to do so. Those files were on it for a reason though, and that reason is transferring them to something that gets the data to China.

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Re:Chinese battery expert is charged with stealing trade sec... by jamescostian on Saturday December 22, 2018 @07:16PM (#18743395)

In the post you're replying to, I included a link that does not contain the sentence you quoted. In fact, that link shows the person making a valid correction. If you read it, you'll see why I upvoted it.

The entire point of the comment I made (which you replied to) is not that baybal2 is correct (in fact, I have no idea/opinion of whether they are correct about the defendent being innocent). The point is that ad hominem attacks through downvotes are a bad thing.

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Re:Chinese battery expert is charged with stealing trade sec... by scarejunba on Sunday December 23, 2018 @03:54AM (#18745143)

PG has maintained from the beginning that HN comments need not be upvoted for civility alone. “I disagree therefore I downvote” is valid etiquette on HN. I’m not going to stop doing that.

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