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Ex-Apple engineer sentenced to six months in prison for stealing self-driving car tech (www.engadget.com)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Zhang resigned from Apple following a paternity leave and a trip to China, telling the iPhonemaker that he was going to work in the country for XPeng Motors. That reportedly triggered an investigation, since XPeng is also working on autonomous driving technology, which revealed that Zhang was caught on CCTV taking hardware from Apple's labs and transferring files to his wife's computer.

6 months is not long enough.

This is stealing trade secrets, then fleeing to a country that doesn't give a shit about that.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’ll agree with you when a corporation is jailed for life when an employee or consumer of their product dies. Until then, this is simple theft and should be financially punished.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

O.o Since when is grand theft just a financial punishment? You realize you can get years in jail for it, right?…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

stealing * information* Nobody was harmed; nobody was deprived of life, limb, security, or physical property or currency. Knowledge was transferred without authorization, meaning that only the potential reduction of future profits for a corporation is at stake. It's a breach of contract - about the least impactful thing that a human can do to non-human. This kind of crime should never result in prison, or else it should be applied to every knowledge worker, ceo, or vc who remembers any part of any business they've every been involved with in the past (which it never is).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Huh? No. Read the article, they literally stole hardware.

That reportedly triggered an investigation […] which revealed that Zhang was caught on CCTV taking hardware from Apple's labs and transferring files to his wife's computer.

Emphasis mine.

Not to mention, it would be one thing to do this between American companies, but taking it to a Chinese company, and in China no less, likely has other serious implications.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nice redirect - this is not about the theft of hardware but the divulging of [checks Republican notecard] Super Important Information (but not important enough to patent, or so simple as to not be patentable) that was given to [Checks skin color card] those theiving, IP stealing, red communist Chinese.

I hope your corporate masters give you a pat on the head and an extra Milk Bone tonight. You've worked hard for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

… so you admit this was grand theft, but claim he got a whopping 6 months in prison because racism?

Did you need another layer for that tinfoil hat?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

How long do you think Tim Cook should go to jail for stealing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I hate to say this, but there is no Stalin on you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yes, we must protect capital.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

We should when it's other capital that wants to steal it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Will no one think of the shareholders???

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I mean, there's also been five years of trials