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Re:TSMC says employees tried to steal trade secrets on iPhon... by dmbche on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @09:46AM (#44797920)
Harder to pretend when speaking with colleagues that are the real deal. Also very likely to "step out of line" accidentally over time as lot of time is spent with colleagues.

It's not hard to pretend to be anything for 5 minutes to someone who doesn't know anything about what you're doing.

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Re:TSMC says employees tried to steal trade secrets on iPhon... by onlyrealcuzzo on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @10:40AM (#44798579)
Naively, I was assuming TSMC would still operate like TSMC, not the Taliban, and that they'd focus on doing their work, not religious performance, but I guess anything is possible!

Suggesting TSMC start operating like the Taliban to protect their trade secrets seems like an obviously bad idea, though.

But we don't live in a vacuum, so I guess it's all just opinion pieces.

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Re:TSMC says employees tried to steal trade secrets on iPhon... by monkeyelite on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @11:55AM (#44799675)
Please don’t be facetious
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Re:TSMC says employees tried to steal trade secrets on iPhon... by onlyrealcuzzo on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @02:29PM (#44802188)
Okay, substitute Taliban for the Church of Scientology or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

It's a marginally less absurd proposal.

My point stands.

Proposing extreme religious nepotism as a good counter-measure to deal with espionage 1) would be minimally effective (see the IDF infiltrating Hamas and Iran regularly), and 2) is ridiculous.

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Re:TSMC says employees tried to steal trade secrets on iPhon... by monkeyelite on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @04:48PM (#44804068)
> Proposing extreme religious nepotism as a good counter-measure

Please read the thread again.

This is not a prescription. This is a description of how high trust markets work.

See this classic economics paper “Jewish Diamond Merchants in New York”: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=349040

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Re:TSMC says employees tried to steal trade secrets on iPhon... by dmbche on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @06:47PM (#44805438)
What are we on about now? The taliban?
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