TSMC says employees tried to steal trade secrets on iPhone 18 chip process

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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