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Wednesday, August 17, 2005

corporate espionage

last week I was reading an article on Wall Street Journal on this. according to the article, the FBI's main focus these days (apart from counter terrorism), is to tackle corporate spies, especially by chinese nationals. apparently most of it is done by either threatening or bribing people of chinese origin who work for hi-tech companies and defence establishments. and there have been some convictions too.

I was reading this article in our company break room. after I finished reading it, I casually left it on a nearby table. and one of the guys spotted the story. well, he was a chinese :) and not just him, the whole table was occupied by chinese people. with a big smile I silently vacated my place :)

14 Comments:

Blogger Chakra said...

:)

12:59 AM  
Blogger tt_giant said...

aaah.. avangala stereotyping panniteenga!!..

ungalukku cafeteria la round-u thaan (kung-fu style)!!

2:07 PM  
Blogger cutefreaky said...

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5:29 PM  
Blogger cutefreaky said...

hmm..hardworking people..

sukku :)

5:30 PM  
Blogger Twin-Gemini said...

I also read this article, pretty insightful. It seems that sometimes their govt. themselves ask these nationals to do it.

7:05 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

avanugala mattum nambave koodathu...kanna simitite ..velaya sadhichupanuga...pasanga..nehru emandha mathiri..ippo china china..nu ulagame emaruthu...

12:30 AM  
Blogger Krish said...

This is plain stereotyping!..I think Americans(everyone for that matter- we with Pakis) resort to this shortcut everytime!

4:19 AM  
Blogger ada-paavi!!!! said...

patthunadandukongo,
ongaliyim anvanga league illa sera solluvanga!

6:36 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

chinkus :)

10:20 PM  
Blogger Ram C said...

it happens everywhere.. and they are really aggressive nowadays, to be on top of the world. So, we can expect anything to happen... further.

7:00 PM  
Blogger Venky Krishnamoorthy said...

I read a story about chinese govt's restriction to the websites one can visit in mainland china. The guy who wrote the story is a finacial analyst with MS and he says he cannot visit websites of BBC for example and he uses a proxy server to get around this restriction.

8:48 PM  
Blogger saranyan r said...

desi, adha apprama pannen :)

hari, they are actually very hard working people.

krish, no there have been cases. but the industry is also concerned that the FBI is taking this way too far.

vatsan, namma thanee league ba :)

anon, may I know who you are?

reflex, China is far advanced in production facilities .. be it electronics or just simple toys. and that has been there for a long time. we are just picking up man, and that too only in software services.

ram, very true.

vanky, yeah those restrictions have been there for a long time. what else can you expect in a communist country. thanks for the comment :)

8:59 PM  
Blogger Adaengappa !! said...

Engeyo padichathu :Chinese makkalukku english mattum therinchaal ,Indian IT market will be taken over by them--at cheap cost !!

5:11 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Saran,
I guess this story is closely related to your post. Its on the first page of CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/08/25/hackers.china/index.html

12:24 PM  

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