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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • We (the US) off-shored our manufacturing labor to China because of cheap labor. We were able to continue to reap much of the benefits of this production with our intellectual property (trade secrets, patents, etc).

    China will inevitably catch up in the IP game and have been quickly doing so, often through corporate espionage, sending students to study in Western schools, and just from experience building most of these physical goods.

    It’s IP theft and seen as cheating. And will erode the US IP dominance faster than we’d like.

    I’m pretty on the fence over it as an American personally. IP laws in general are kind of bullshit but also, we’re on our back foot economically because we have no infrastructure to build anymore. And if we no longer have the IP dominance, we have zero economic leverage.

    And all that’s ignoring all the governmental and civic espionage that has other uncomfortable implications.











  • “And immediately after we had removed them from the environment, another attack set off, which we attributed to the same group trying to get back in through other means,” he added.

    This happened within 24 hours, with a credential-stuffing attack. “There was no opsec, no slow-and-low,” Dwyer said. “They put the persistent in APT. Once they identify a target as valuable to them and their goals and objectives, they will continue to try to get back in.”

    And this is from a company that seems to at least sort of take security seriously (ignoring the glaring error that got them in this situation). Responding to this threat seems like a challenge for most companies down the supply chain.