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Re:Former Harvard chemistry chair to stand trial for alleged... by GhettoComputers on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @04:04PM (#29557711)
China stole a lot of the fighter jet blueprints like this stealth one. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/hacked-how-china-stol...

What is the US response? I don't even know.

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Re:Former Harvard chemistry chair to stand trial for alleged... by kube-system on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @04:19PM (#29557953)
The US extradited the guy from Canada who did it and put him in federal prison, there were increasing threats of sanctions, and Obama met with Xi to talk about it.
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Re:Former Harvard chemistry chair to stand trial for alleged... by GhettoComputers on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @04:35PM (#29558213)
I remember this other case too, look at all he stole, and almost 4 years in prison, I am sure he will learn his lesson and never do it again. https://www.theverge.com/2016/7/15/12196872/chinese-man-us-p...

>increasing threats of sanctions

So threats, no real sanctions, not that the steel sanctions did anything, somehow Vietnam started selling us all their steel after we sanction China for other reasons.

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Re:Former Harvard chemistry chair to stand trial for alleged... by kube-system on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @09:38PM (#29561403)
My point above is, that’s a lot more than will happen for pirating a DVD in China.
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Re:Former Harvard chemistry chair to stand trial for alleged... by GhettoComputers on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @05:06AM (#29563929)
Some vague threat that had no teeth?

What happened? Nobody will be discouraged by such a short term sentence, and be emboldened by its opportunity cost.

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