Spying is not always James Bond or cloak-and-dagger kinds of stuff.<\/p>\n
Sometimes secrets can fall into the wrong hands through industrial espionage.<\/p>\n
For instance, U.S. federal authorities say former Apple employee Weibao Wang took with him confidential Apple material regarding self-driving cars when he resigned from Apple and joined a startup owned by Baidu, a major Chinese technology company.<\/p>\n
Wang, 35, indicted by a federal grand jury in May, joined Apple as a software engineer in March 2016, and worked with an Apple team \u201cthat designed and developed hardware and software for autonomous systems, which can have a variety of applications, such as self-driving cars,\u201d according to a news release<\/a> from the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office of the Northern District of California.<\/p>\n Wang left Apple after about a month and in November 2017, took a full-time job as a staff engineer \u201cwith the U.S. subsidiary of a company headquartered in the People\u2019s Republic of China\u2026and was allegedly working to develop self-driving cars,\u201d the news release said.<\/p>\n Although his current LinkedIn<\/a> site still has Wang employed by Apple, the U.S. attorney\u2019s office did not name the Chinese company for whom Wang allegedly stole secrets.<\/p>\n Reuters last year identified Wang as an executive of Jidu, the electric vehicle subsidiary of Baidu. Wang\u2019s mention by Reuters<\/a> was in a June 2022, story of Jidu developing a self-driving concept car<\/a>.<\/p>\n When he left Apple on April 16, 2018, \u201cApple identified Wang as having accessed large amounts of sensitive proprietary and confidential information in the days leading up to his departure from Apple,\u201d according to the U.S. attorney\u2019s office news release.<\/p>\n Wang Weibao, Head of Autonomous Driving at Jidu, resigns. Two weeks ago, the ex-Apple engineer was accused of stealing Apple\u2019s self-driving tech and taking it to a Baidu-backed automaker. pic.twitter.com\/vUcgR2M2T9<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 CarNewsChina.com (@CarNewsChina) May 30, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n \nAlso, after departing Apple and while employed apparently at Jidu, authorities said Wang accessed more of Apple\u2019s confidential information.<\/p>\n A June 27, 2018, search of Wang\u2019s Mountain View, California, residence found \u201clarge quantities of data taken from Apple prior to his departure,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n \u201cWang was present during the search and told agents he had not plans to travel. Nevertheless, Wang purchased a one-way plane ticket from San Francisco International Airport to Guangzhou, China, and boarded the flight that night.\u201d<\/p>\n The indictment contains six categories of trade secret theft and, if found guilty, Wang could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison and fined $250,000 or \u201ctwice the gross gain or loss resulting from the scheme\u201d for each count.<\/p>\n With Wang apparently in China, the charges were made in absentia, UPI reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n So industrial espionage<\/a> \u2014 perhaps not as exciting as movie spy adventures \u2014 can get things to places not friendly to the U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n And there are other ways.<\/p>\n As in when then-President Barack Obama told Congress in 2015 of his administration beginning talks with China about providing them access to U.S. nuclear data, according to Business Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n Or President Bill Clinton selling missile technology to China as reported by Capital Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n Then there\u2019s President Joe Biden and his family. What\u2019s going on there is more confusing and speculative than I\u2019d like to deal with today.<\/p>\n Suffice it with this \u2014 on Biden\u2019s watch, a Chinese balloon was able to happily drift its way across the American continent<\/a>.<\/p>\n If that\u2019s not a breach of intelligence, what is?<\/p>\n This article appeared originally on The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post US Tech Giant Hired Apparent Chinese Spy and Gave Him Vast Access to Databases \u2013 Now He\u2019s Disappeared<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spying is not always James Bond or cloak-and-dagger kinds of stuff. Sometimes secrets can fall into the wrong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n