Former Google Chinese engineer arrested for espionage

Google Engineer Arrested: High-Tech Espionage Plot Uncovered

If you’ve ever wondered how America’s greatest technological breakthroughs end up powering China’s military and surveillance state, look no further than the smiling face of Linwei Ding — or as he tried to rebrand himself, “Leon.”

This former Google engineer just got convicted on 14 counts of espionage and theft of trade secrets, and not for snagging a few PowerPoint slides. We’re talking over 2,000 pages of Google’s top-secret AI blueprints — the kind of stuff that powers next-gen supercomputers, not your Roomba.

Between May 2022 and April 2023, Ding was living the Silicon Valley dream: six-figure salary, access to cutting-edge AI research, and apparently a side hustle in high-tech treason.

While cashing paychecks from Google, he was secretly laying the groundwork to become the CEO of his own AI company in China — and not just any startup. He pitched it to investors by bragging that he could replicate Google’s supercomputing tech. Because nothing says “entrepreneurial spirit” like corporate espionage.

Linwei Ding is facing serious prison time, and he deserves every second. But the bigger question is how many more Dings are still out there — quietly siphoning off American innovation to the highest bidder, all under the noses of corporate executives and federal agencies too distracted or too afraid to ask tough questions.

If we don’t get serious about espionage from the inside, we won’t need to worry about China stealing the future — we’ll just hand it to them, one Google Drive folder at a time and stop the federal bureaucrats from handing out H-1B visas like they’re handing out Halloween candy.

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