My comment on the article. Usually I am of higher opinion of NYT, but now this piece of writing is simply tendencious
The court case covered there is just plainly the case of plaintiff's lawyers being paranoid about about petty theft case, and having rich imagination. Think of Aron Schwartz case, except even more absurd here, as the defendant have called police on himself.
An employee from mainland who previously worked at a competitor company accidentally put coworker's phone into her bag along with papers on the table. They guy thought that his phone was stolen and called police, police found his phone in a locker of a coworker.
During investigation of that theft, they stumbled on some company docs on the phone, and opened an espionage case based on that. Why a defector would file a police report on his accomplice?
For it to be an espionage, a less lame way to exfiltrate information would be employed, and certainly, a spy will not call the police to arrest his accomplice.
Just thinking that somebody can carry netlists for a chip which take few hard drives to store in compressed form on a tiny memory of a smartphone does not pass a BS test.
The court case covered there is just plainly the case of plaintiff's lawyers being paranoid about about petty theft case, and having rich imagination. Think of Aron Schwartz case, except even more absurd here, as the defendant have called police on himself.
An employee from mainland who previously worked at a competitor company accidentally put coworker's phone into her bag along with papers on the table. They guy thought that his phone was stolen and called police, police found his phone in a locker of a coworker.
During investigation of that theft, they stumbled on some company docs on the phone, and opened an espionage case based on that. Why a defector would file a police report on his accomplice?
For it to be an espionage, a less lame way to exfiltrate information would be employed, and certainly, a spy will not call the police to arrest his accomplice.
Just thinking that somebody can carry netlists for a chip which take few hard drives to store in compressed form on a tiny memory of a smartphone does not pass a BS test.