China rocked by 'sandpaper' chip fraud

vnunet.com ^ | 15 May 2006 | Simon Burns

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The house of cards is quivering.

[2banana]

Communism doesn't work - it just makes people afraid to fail and will go to extreme lengths to make their quotas...

[moose2004]

The Chinese government will lock this guy up for the rest of his life, that's if he's lucky.

[hsalaw]

Isn't China the place that had that "human clone" fraud about six months' ago? Fraud may be a new industry for China.

[Roccus]

IIRC it was South Korea.

[dhs12345]

Now, if they could figure out how to copy ICs...

[hsalaw]

I think you're right. Well, at least I had it on the right side of the world.

[dhs12345]

Has been for some time -- mass duplication of DVDs & CDs, computer software, etc. The recording industries complain about US citizens copying media and losing billions.

[Polybius]

The Chinese government will lock this guy up for the rest of his life, that's if he's lucky.

He won't be locked up for long.............I just bought his kidneys so that Uncle can get his transplant.

[canuck_conservative]

And this is the country that's going to set up its own space program to go to the Moon?

Oooookayyyyyyy.....

[Roccus]

Did they say anything about getting them back?

[jonascord]

Professor Chen had better hope he isn't a close tissue type for some european with a bad liver

[GAB-1955]

Well, we didn't need a fancy IC to get the Apollo to the moon; the Shenzhou could do it without this chip.

[FreePaul]

...who earned his doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin...

And last week a former U of T football player was arrested on drug charges. What's happening in Austin. Must be a whole nest of criminals there. Maybe the District Attorney should be involved with something other than political prosecutions.

[canuck_conservative]

[jiggyboy]

I worked with Chinese computer / electronics engineers twice in the 1990's. Both times were the same general story: whatever technical competence they have goes first and foremost into stealing technology and trying to beat whatever system of recordkeeping and accountability that goes along with it.

This is true even when there is no reason to steal the concepts or in fact even when the only practical outcome from beating the recordkeeping systems hurts them rather them helps them. Why would you try to trick a system that keeps track of what improvements you make to your own internal software?

[Little Ray]

Neah. He's about to become an organ donor.

[Dallas59]

It'll be a fake moon landing...