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Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by Scoundreller on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:05PM (#30076421)
Do companies hire/recruit (ex-)employees from competitors to re-implement the same features?

Yes.

Lots of IP between your ears. No point in the code/manuals/docs when you wrote them yourself. You’ll know they’re not exactly correct and may appreciate being able rewrite from the ground-up now knowing what you now know.

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Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by jacknews on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @06:20AM (#30084177)
Sure, but if the employee brings along the architecture documents or the source code, that's theft. What's alleged here is that a CHinese company is exfiltrating actual PCB designs via PnP machine malware.
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