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Date: 20 May 2025 19:39:21 GMT
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On Tue, 20 May 2025 08:49:26 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> That's the kind of policy which would have prevented people like Edward
> Snowden from revealing what they did to the world. Additionally, Western
> companies are constantly losing their intellectual property to Chinese
> imitations. These imitations are usually produced using information that
> was stolen by employees and sold to the Reds or reverse-engineered.

It probably would not have slowed Snowden down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Record_(autobiography)

His autobiography is self-serving to some extent but it is interesting. He 
was surprised to discover he'd been given the keys to the kingdom as an 
outside contractor.