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A former Apple staff has been arrested on charges of stealing self-driving car technology from Apple and sharing trade secrets to a Chinese electric vehicle company called Xpeng Motors. He was arrested on July 7 at the security checkpoint at San Jose International Airport on the way to board a “last-minute” flight to Hangzhou, China. This is coming during the peak of a heated trade war between the United States and China.



The U.S. federal prosecutors accused the ex-Apple hardware engineer, Xiaolang Zhang, of copying over 40 GB of Apple intellectual property to his wife’s laptop before submitting his resignation letter and leaving Apple in April to work for Xpeng Motors in China. According to Reuters, the downloaded data includes a 25-page secret blueprint of a circuit board for a self-driving car, which investigators say “serves as the basis for the instant criminal charge.”



He took paternity leave in April 2018, and traveled to China, but was flagged for suspicious behavior when his supervisor discovered that he ran extensive searches of secret databases and returned to Apple’s campus on April 28, at a time when he was still supposed to be in China for paternity leave. On April 30, Zhang resigned from Apple to work for Xpeng Motors in China, guess he was more loyal to his country than he was to the Biggest Tech company in the world.

On June 27, the FBI questioned Zhang and served a search warrant at his house. Agents later learned that Zhang purchased a “last-minute” ticket to China for July 7, on which day he was arrested. He faces lengthy prison time if convicted and at the same time puts other Chinese workers in America in bad position because US president Trump have accused China of stealing American technology. Guess this arrest have proved him right.

SOURCE:https://techcapon.com/ex-apple-worker-risks-prison-term-for-stealing-apples-self-driving-car-secrets/

Interesting.....

Sorry unto them. No idea is original though.

Mumu

look at citizen getting arrested for a right cause, stealing for the great of his country, if it's our Nigeria you will hear arrested for duping or drug racketing. useless country with useless president

Cup full

hmmm

He's done for......

What happened to Apple when they stole from the original source?

I Blame Buhari

cool

The guy is a hero. If he had succeeded, Africans will be able to afford self driving cars in 5years time.

The hardware engineer, Xiaolang Zhang, of copying over 40 GB of Apple intellectual property to his wife’s laptop before submitting his resignation letter and leaving Apple in April to work for Xpeng Motors in China.

Most so called Chinesr inventions are copy copy of US.

I am usually surprised when people compare China with US in technology advancement.

denkyw:
The guy is a hero. If he had succeeded, Africans will be able to afford self driving cars in 5years time.

datola:
The hardware engineer, Xiaolang Zhang, of copying over 40 GB of Apple intellectual property to his wife’s laptop before submitting his resignation letter and leaving Apple in April to work for Xpeng Motors in China.

Most so called Chinesr inventions are copy copy of US.

I am usually surprised when people compare China with US in technology advancement.

very true

TechCapon:
very true

us also spy and copy ussr tech ..... China can rival us technologically

datola:
The hardware engineer, Xiaolang Zhang, of copying over 40 GB of Apple intellectual property to his wife’s laptop before submitting his resignation letter and leaving Apple in April to work for Xpeng Motors in China.

Most so called Chinesr inventions are copy copy of US.

I am usually surprised when people compare China with US in technology advancement.

us kidnapped lunik to study and discover why their space rocket lunch keeps failing..... countries spy on each other's tech... Benz once hired a Tesla and took it apart to see it's secret.. China can definitely rival us.. they now manufacturer their own microprocessors..

Village people.

Just out of ban, nawa for the nairaland mod that banned me.

emalek86:
look at citizen getting arrested for a right cause, stealing for the great of his country, if it's our Nigeria you will hear arrested for duping or drug racketing. useless country with useless president

for ur mind , us no get drug barins and fraudster?.... take a short break from nollywood and watch foreign news

teamsynergy:


us also spy and copy ussr tech ..... China can rival us technologically

China can rival US maybe in 10 years time but not right now. That doesn't mean China is not doing well technologically

Industrial espionage

TechCapon:
China can rival US maybe in 10 years time but not right now. That doesn't mean China is not doing well technologically

don't be decieved, China is very well advanced technologically... what does us have that China doesn't.... funny you, ten years time? lol

mind u, China now have the fastest super computer in the world

datola:
The hardware engineer, Xiaolang Zhang, of copying over 40 GB of Apple intellectual property to his wife’s laptop before submitting his resignation letter and leaving Apple in April to work for Xpeng Motors in China.

Most so called Chinesr inventions are copy copy of US.

I am usually surprised when people compare China with US in technology advancement.

dnt even compare China to US...China is better...

US cant work without outsourcing Expertriats frm China...

Go to Apple Hq nd see d number of chinese dere...
Go to other companies like fiat, ford,GM nd co and see d nomba of chinese dey 've got...

INTERESTING

teamsynergy:


don't be decieved, China is very well advanced technologically... what does us have that China doesn't.... funny you, ten years time? lol

mind u, China now have the fastest super computer in the world

why do you think China's phone giant ZTE is fighting so the US can lift the ban on the company. It's because it depends heavily on the US equipment to make their products. If China is so advanced as you say, ZTE would never agree to pay a fine of over $1 billion in the US. They'll just go ahead and get accessories from China and continue their production.

Lobatan

Chinese steals their tech. they didn't obtain them the proper way.

TechCapon:
why do you think China's phone giant ZTE is fighting so the US can lift the ban on the company. It's because it depends heavily on the US equipment to make their products. If China is so advanced as you say, ZTE would never agree to pay a fine of over $1 billion in the US. They'll just go ahead and get accessories from China and continue their production.

cos zte uses Qualcomm and that they choose to target us as their main market doesn't mean China can't rival us in tech.
when Nigeria sactioned mtn, why did they agree to pay ? they could have left now abi nigeria technology is better than that of Sa...
people do bizness on different ground depending on how easy and the kind of market they target..