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by GhettoComputers 1655 days ago
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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kube-system 1655 days ago
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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GhettoComputers 1655 days ago
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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kube-system 1655 days ago
My point above is, that’s a lot more than will happen for pirating a DVD in China.
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GhettoComputers 1654 days ago
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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