By Russell D. Vines, Posted in Security
Bloomberg, Businessweek, the New York Times, and several other news outlets have been on the case of China's Sinovel Wind Group's use of corporate espionage to gain a competitive advantage over the United States and other countries. Last April, Sinovel stopped purchasing wind turbine control software from American Semiconductor Corp. for no apparent reason. By June, AMSC had figured out why: Sinovel had cracked AMSC's proprietary turbine management source code and didn't need AMSC any more.
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