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It was an innocuous-looking photograph that turned out to be the downfall of Zheng Xiaoqing, a former employee with energy conglomerate General Electric Power:
According to a Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment, the US citizen hid confidential files stolen from his employers in the binary code of a digital photograph of a sunset, which Mr Zheng then mailed to himself.
It was a technique called steganography, a means of hiding a data file within the code of another data file. Mr Zheng utilised it on multiple occasions to take sensitive files from GE.
[...] The information Zheng stole was related to the design and manufacture of gas and steam turbines, including turbine blades and turbine seals. Considered to be worth millions, it was sent to his accomplice in China. It would ultimately benefit the Chinese government, as well as China-based companies and universities.
Zheng was sentenced to two years in prison earlier this month. It is the latest in a series of similar cases prosecuted by US authorities. In November Chinese national Xu Yanjun, said to be a career spy, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for plotting to steal trade secrets from several US aviation and aerospace companies - including GE.
Originally spotted on Schneier on Security.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by RedGreen on Sunday January 22 2023, @05:00AM (2 children)
Brought to by the same people who did it to bootstrap their rise by stealing all the IP of the word back then, the Americans. Then again they have always have been that with all they do, from the all men created with equal rights, unless of course you are not a christian white male, to the democracy they are suppose to support. The same people who whenever a government is elected around the world that supports the people are the first to get the murdering right wing bastards going about their business of killing their leaders and people they do so well. Though I do agree they should be stopping the equal murderous Chinese bastards, first step should be telling their parasite corporations the free ride is over pay some taxes and bring back the jobs you have farmed out to the slave labour there.
"I modded down, down, down, and the flames went higher." -- Sven Olsen
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 22 2023, @01:42PM (1 child)
Your government is next.
(Score: 3, Informative) by RedGreen on Sunday January 22 2023, @03:23PM
"Your government is next."
I am under no illusions that my government is anything special. They just do not flat out murder people, they are the same scummy bunch of bastards all politicians are. That is the only difference there is between them.
"I modded down, down, down, and the flames went higher." -- Sven Olsen