I remember that ep, Keith. On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote:
> > > About ten or fifteen years ago, "20/20" aired a show on how Russian and > Chinese spies were trying to infiltrate toy companies to steal the tech. > This was back when toys first start being built with sophisticated computer > tech, like the talking Teddy Ruxpin doll, fancy R/C cars and planes, etc. > They wanted to steal the chips to goose their high tech and military > industries. "20/20" showed how easy it was to steal stuff. The reporter got > a tour of a toy company, and walked out with an entire stick of IC chips > hidden up his jacket sleeve. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 8:29:40 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Confessed Spy Convicted of Exporting U.S. > Crypto Gear to China > > > > I think the real problem is that it is too easy to obtain stuff that is > supposed to be classified. There are too many sources for things like this > to slip outside of the country. Back in 2001 there was a mandate against > selling PS2 and Xbox game counsels (and software) to the middle east because > there was a belief that they would take them and make super computers out of > them, but they never put anything in place world wide to prevent export > sales of the game machines from other countries. > > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Martin Baxter <martinbaxt...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Martin Baxter <martin.baxter....@gmail.com> >> Date: Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:10 PM >> Subject: Confessed Spy Convicted of Exporting U.S. Crypto Gear to China >> To: martinbaxt...@gmail.com >> >> >> Maybe *this* is why China's not working on a browser... >> >> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/kuok/ >> >> -- >> "Between getsumei no michi and the Zero...no better place to live." >> >> (About little moments of happiness) "If this isn't nice, I don't know what >> is." -- Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man Without A Country" >> >> >> >> -- >> "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell >> wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik >> >> >> > > > -- > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
