Posted on 02/01/2020 9:55:58 AM PST by NorseViking
“He didn’t get out of the country with it.”
Thankfully! Good job by Raytheon and law enforcement.
The Elitebook is a compact computer, If they did not check his backpack or briefcase properly on exit he could have gotten it out unnoticed. If they told him not to take it he showed malicious intent. In ten years he had received regular counterespionage briefings at Raytheon. This is as in your face as it gets.
Also, China sends people here to infiltrate
“This is exactly why they are willing to do this. He should be put to death for treason, period.”
BINGO!
From the article: The case, which has not been reported until now, is yet another example of China’s increasing efforts to acquire American military technology. The country’s security services have already compromised dozens of crucial US weapons systems, such as the Army’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) ballistic missile defense system, and the Aegis ballistic missile defense system used by the Navy. In 2018, Chinese hackers stole top-secret plans for a supersonic anti-ship missile being developed by the Navy known as Sea Dragon. The intruders reportedly managed to get massive amounts of sensitive signals and sensor data, in addition to the Navy’s entire electronic warfare library. The weapons with which Sun worked are “pretty much top-of-the-line American systems,” according to Dean Cheng, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation who studies China’s military capabilities. The AMRAAM, or Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missile, is used on US fighter jets like the F-16 and F-22 to destroy other aircraft before they can be seen by anything but radar. It has also been converted into a ground-based air defense system, which may have been Sun’s focus, since prosecutors describe his work as focusing on ballistic missile defense. The documents also say Raytheon employees will provide testimony about the Stinger missile, a “man-portable” air-defense missile that can be fired by troops on the ground, made most famous when the US supplied it to Afghan warlords fighting against occupying Soviet troops. Perhaps most significant is Sun’s involvement with the Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV) program, an effort to replace the interceptor used by US air defense systems to shoot down incoming ballistic missiles.
So Raytheon lets laptops leave the building and connect to Raytheon’s internal network, and knew the Chinese tech was going take his laptop with him, but did not secure the laptop or alert the FBI? Something does not seem right about this info.
More importantly, we now have a “Space Force”...
Employees can routinely take unclassified laptops home with them and connect to the unclassified network by VPN. A lot of unclassified information is sensitive, and it is illegal to disclose certain protected information to non-US persons. The Chinese Engineer would have had to have been a US citizen. There many Chinese, Arab, Pakistanis, and Persians working at Raytheon. Some of the most patriotic Americans you will ever meet are immigrants, trust me. But not all. A lot of the worst leaks are from native born “all American” types.
The problem companies have is finding ethnic Americans who get STEM degrees. Ethnic Americans are far too busy learning much more important things, such as the importance of Feminism on the island of Tonga.
So our companies are stuck pretty much with either foreigners, naturalized US citizens (which this traitor was), or people descended from recent immigrants. And of this batch, for technical fields, Asians obviously dominate.
So, my proposal might be a middle ground - you need to BORN HERE (and lived here continuously), as opposed to being naturalized (at least for people of Chinese heritage, and unfortunately Taiwan and Hong Kong have to be included as Mother China has been shown capable of getting some of them to turn on the US).
That gets pretty good distance from both being blackmailed by China, but still allows access to most of those people here. Otherwise Raytheon and similar companies would be stuck with a bunch of US high school rejects and feminists.
Not right but not the info, rather company security and not just Raytheon but many US companies have terrible security.
There should be some way to automatically reject requests from a user once out of the country or out of the building. But what do i know.
There may be such a thing, but it has to be implemented
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