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Re:Chinese spies stole trade secrets from Dutch chip machine... by gxwmg on Saturday April 20, 2019 @08:17AM (#19706128)
>2) Looking at the circumstances, it seems far more likely that this was an action by ex-exployees with commercial motives, rather than government-sponsored spying.

Which doesn't surprise me, as that's practically ingrained in the Chinese culture, and is another factor to take into account when hiring Chinese people.

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Re:Chinese spies stole trade secrets from Dutch chip machine... by thrwaway190420 on Saturday April 20, 2019 @10:04AM (#19706557)
>and is another factor to take into account when hiring Chinese people.

I understand what you mean, but it's literally illegal to take any factor into account when hiring Chinese people (literal racism). It's literally a protected status.

Is there some other way to interview and test whether someone will steal your code and send it to China, other than the fact that they're Chinese?

If you can come up with an alternative test you give everyone, it's okay. Using nationality as a shortcut is not OK.

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