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ZanZibar
01-19-2012, 08:23 PM
"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. (http://www.securityweek.com/chinese-programmer-charged-stealing-source-code-federal-reserve-bank-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."

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http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/01/19/2139245/man-charged-with-stealing-code-from-federal-reserve-bank

Seraphim
01-20-2012, 08:50 AM
The Fed and it's cohorts should be charged for stealing everything else.

The Goat
01-20-2012, 08:55 AM
So you say the Chinese know the secrete of the Federal Reserve?


Lets bomb them!

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