Airbus hit by series of cyber attacks on suppliers

Re:Airbus hit by series of cyber attacks on suppliers by finolex1 on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @04:03PM (#21129939)

Virtually every industrialized economy since the Industrial revolution has developed in part by 'borrowing' or stealing existing technology. Not making a moral judgment here, but economically it makes no sense to reinvent the wheel.

You might be right that predictions of China's rise is overblown, but we forget how crappy Korean technology was just a couple of decades ago, and there's no reason it can't happen again.

Regarding the Ma/Musk debate, that seems like a strawman argument. Ma studied English in college and his strengths are his business and political accumen, not technical ability. There's plenty of people in China with a better understanding of the AI landscape.

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Re:Airbus hit by series of cyber attacks on suppliers by mch82 on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @04:44PM (#21130399)

See the book “Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World” by Steven Johnson for interesting examples of agricultural theft (the history of vanilla was fascinating). Here’s a video lecture from Steve that may include some, but I only just found it while double checking the book title. http://longnow.org/seminars/02017/jan/04/wonderland-how-play...

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