Man Charged With Stealing Code From Federal Reserve Bank 199
wiredmikey writes "A Chinese computer programmer was arrested by U.S. authorities in New York on Wednesday, on charges that he stole proprietary source code while working on a project at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The man arrested, Bo Zhang of New York, worked as a contract employee developing a specific portion of the GWA's (Government-Wide Accounting and Reporting Program) source code at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where the code is maintained. The complaint alleges that in the summer of 2011, Zhang stole the GWA code, something he admitted to in July 2011. Zhang said that he used the GWA Code in connection with a private business he ran training individuals in computer programming."
Citizenship not required? (Score:5, Interesting)
Every government IT job like this I've ever seen has US citizenship required, not even green card required. How did this guy get in?
Re:Lesson 1 (Score:4, Interesting)
The Fed is as close to godhood as one gets in public life. You only serve for fourteen years (unlike federal judges), but you also make the money. I suppose the Fed could be abolished, but short of that, you're pretty much set.
meanwhile just a handful of hours away (Score:4, Interesting)
There is an unemployed American programmer begging for minimum wage temporary night shift job, and eating spaghetti for the 4th night in a row, meanwhile these shits are hiring Chinese contractors
God bless America!
Re:Racists (Score:5, Interesting)
There are times that racism is here. There may be posts here that are racists. HOWEVER, the vast majority are NOT racists, but simply pointing out somebody that very likely is a spy.
Re:Lesson 1 (Score:5, Interesting)
So if the Federal Reserve doesn't "issue money" can you explain the word issue in:
- US Code, Title 12 Chapter 3 Subchapter XII Section 411 - http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/12/411.html [cornell.edu]
Or are you just sticking to a technically that the Board isn't the Fed, so the Microsoft Board of Directors doesn't count as Microsoft for example.
Or that having the power to direct something to be done isn't the same as doing it - so that whole gulf oil thing a while back has isn't BHPs problem after all they just told their contractors and employees to do it.