Comment on Ex-Apple engineer sentenced to six months in prison for stealing self-driving car tech

• Overzeetop@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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 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.

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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Overzeetop@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨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?

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