In China, he disables Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, never lets his phone out of his sight...

[mookiemookie]

He leaves his cellphone and laptop at home and instead brings “loaner” devices, which he erases before he leaves the United States and wipes clean the minute he returns. In China, he disables Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, never lets his phone out of his sight and, in meetings, not only turns off his phone but also removes the battery, for fear his microphone could be turned on remotely. He connects to the Internet only through an encrypted, password-protected channel, and copies and pastes his password from a USB thumb drive. He never types in a password directly, because, he said, “the Chinese are very good at installing key-logging software on your laptop.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/te...espionage.html

The Chinese being duplicitous? Perish the thought!

[Torplexed]

Remember the good old days when nations had to buy somebody off to get classified data? Or heaven forbid, send an agent in the dead of night to break into file cabinets? No more. James Bond has gone geek.

Mobile devices. Making espionage faster and more enjoyable for 20 years now.

[MH]

I don't understand the illusion some have that china is all about producing cheap stuff and nothing about gaining technology base.
Eventually putting others out of business.
They seem to emulate the Japanese.

[em2nought]

copy & paste password, hmmm might be a good idea.

[magicstix]

Originally Posted by MH

I don't understand the illusion some have that china is all about producing cheap stuff and nothing about gaining technology base.
Eventually putting others out of business.
They seem to emulate the Japanese.

The Japanese tend to improve upon designs they work with. I have yet to see the Chinese do the same. They just copy and throw things together, often winding up with a worse product than what they copied.

[MH]

Originally Posted by magicstix

The Japanese tend to improve upon designs they work with. I have yet to see the Chinese do the same. They just copy and throw things together, often winding up with a worse product than what they copied.

They tend now...there was a time when they simply copied.

[magicstix]

Originally Posted by MH

They tend now...there was a time when they simply copied.

They still simply copy. Their J-20 design is just a copy of the front half of an F-22 with the back half of a Su-27. Their Yuan class submarine is an inferior copy of the Kilo class. Their new P-3 equivalent ASW plane is just a copy of a Russian design that was a copy of an American design. The YU-3 torpedo is just a copy of the Mk-46.

All of the copying would be one thing, but they make design changes that actually make the product inferior. They're not improving on any of the designs they copy.

And don't get me started on their industrial espionage where they wholesale steal foreign intellectual property and then marginalize the companies they've stolen from once they've gleaned all they can from them.

[Torplexed]

I must meet the brilliant marketing minds behind this Chinese rip-off toy concept.

"Let's bootleg Darth Vader, kids love Star Wars."

"Ok, but only if we can put him on a motorcycle."

"Yeah! A POLICE motorcycle!"

"How about a speeder?"

"...nah, that'd be dumb."

[MH]

Originally Posted by magicstix

All of the copying would be one thing, but they make design changes that actually make the product inferior. They're not improving on any of the designs they copy.
.

Lets just speculate here that they copy what they can and produce it according to their current technological ability.
With the right capability and knowledge base they just might to start improve things.
Things are little bit more complicated nowadays.

[MH]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

I must meet the brilliant marketing minds behind this Chinese rip-off toy concept.

"Let's bootleg Darth Vader, kids love Star Wars."

"Ok, but only if we can put him on a motorcycle."

"Yeah! A POLICE motorcycle!"

"How about a speeder?"

"...nah, that'd be dumb."

They just may put Apple out of business one day for fraction of money.
It will be buy the american stuff campaign again.
(made in china lol)
Funny thing to read sometimes... "design in Switzerland made in china"