Medical Device CEO Catches Stranger After Hours, Prompting Espionage Charges
I really hope that we can accept turnabout as fair play. At some point, China is going to have technology that America wants and I hope that we can pilfer it.<p>On the flipside though, industrial espionage is a wealth transfer that reduces inequality. I recently purchased tires for my car - I got some Chinese ones that were 1&#x2F;2 the price of the other tires and the Chinese tires are shockingly fine. I don&#x27;t know how they&#x27;d get the price and quality without benefiting from industrial espionage.<p>Perhaps something more ideal would be to opensource everything that&#x27;s been stolen. It&#x27;d encourage companies to take security seriously and it would reduce the value of the stolen property.<p>Lastly, I kind of wonder how much of this problem is due to companies insisting on removing dependencies from certain people &#x2F; groups. Think of all the documentation people create &#x27;in case you get hit by a bus tomorrow&#x27;. When my grandpa worked, it sounds like it was fine to have undocumented things so long as people knew about it (e.g watch out for that machine, it&#x27;s sensitive to humidity and here&#x27;s how to reset it). Now, I&#x27;m sure some middle manager would insist that the &#x27;operational knowledge&#x27; be documented and stored somewhere that becomes that much more lucrative for a thief.