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Re:Chinese Hackers Target Universities in Pursuit of Maritim... by rangibaby on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @10:55PM (#19325402)
> let alone (what I'd expect to be) comparatively loud work coming from academia.

The US was able to use their lead in computers to design stealth aircraft based on Soviet mathematics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Ufimtsev

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Re:Chinese Hackers Target Universities in Pursuit of Maritim... by simula67 on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @11:53PM (#19325604)
This would prove the OP's point, wouldn't it ? Soviet Russians had interesting discoveries in semiconductors also [1]. However, they were never able to parlay it to economic success as US and other western powers were able to

[1] https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/6367/did-russia-have...

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Re:Chinese Hackers Target Universities in Pursuit of Maritim... by rangibaby on Thursday March 07, 2019 @12:24AM (#19325723)
I wasn't trying to correct anyone, I just thought it was an interesting factoid
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