Chinese Citizen Sentenced In Military Data-Theft Case -- Washington Post
NEWARK, N.J. — Measured in millimeters, the tiny device was designed to allow drones, missiles and rockets to hit targets without satellite guidance. An advanced version was being developed secretly for the U.S. military by a small company and L-3 Communications, a major defense contractor.
On Monday, Sixing Liu, a Chinese citizen who worked at L-3’s space and navigation division, was sentenced in federal court here to five years and 10 months for taking thousands of files about the device, called a disk resonator gyroscope, and other defense systems to China in violation of a U.S. arms embargo.
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My Comment: He got lucky .... he should have gotten life.
He should have gotten life, but it's obvious soft-touch politics prevented that from happening.
ReplyDeleteEver hear of Gary McKinnon, the UK based hacker who hacked into US military security and NASA? The US wanted him extradited and it was said he could have been sentenced of up-to 70 years...
Yet here we have a 'spy' who stole very sensitive data and he gets 5 years?!?
Weird.
I forgot about Gary McKinnon. Good point .... and all he did was try to breach the Pentagon's firewalls.
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