[hkmurakami]

I've written this here before but a chinese engineer stole 30,000 design docs from Denso, which supplies a lot of technology under the hood of Toyota vehicles. It made national headlines and was considered a moment of disgrace for the company.

We don't hear about it because it's a national matter and only the national news outlets cover it.

[JoeAltmaier]

I'm curious: did the company that benefitted from the Denso theft 'give them back'? Or did they quietly continue using the tech? Sometimes I think the whole 'disgrace' game is just a scapegoat to allow moneyed interests to keep doing exactly as they please. But I'm cynical.

[cc439]

It was the company who was infiltrated who was disgraced, not the company (more like companies, Chinese tech espionage is state backed and whatever is collected is widely distributed) that benefited.

[1231throwaway]

Why would they? American companies also don't give back:

https://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/960011/trans-atlant...

[JoeAltmaier]

Because of the 'disgrace' angle, of course. It was recognized as a disgraceful act by an engineer. I am wondering if that disgrace extends to the money folk who took it from that person, or the disgrace ends at the scapegoat. That's all.

[hkmurakami]

No it was a disgrace for Denso to have allowed this to happen.