Chinese man sentenced to death for leaking 150,000 classified documents
Source: Guardian
Huang Yu convicted of leaking state secrets to unidentified foreign power, state television said on Tuesday.
A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for leaking more than 150,000 classified documents to an unidentified foreign power, state television said on Tuesday, offering unusual details of a kind of case rarely mentioned in public.
The man, a computer technician from Sichuan named as Huang Yu, worked for a government department which handled state secrets, but he was a bad employee and was sacked, the report said.
Filled with anger, he messaged a foreign spy organisation on the internet and offered to sell documents he had obtained while working for his former employer, who gladly took him up on his offer and so began their relationship, it added.
Meeting in south-east Asia and Hong Kong, Huang eventually handed over 150,000 documents, covering secrets ranging from everything from the ruling Communist party to military and financial issues, the report said.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/19/chinese-man-sentenced-to-death-for-leaking-150000-classified-documents
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)First the Panama Papers implicating the most powerful families of China...
Then insider-documents on domestic "financial issues" of China...
Akicita
(1,196 posts)Sounds like a good deterrent.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)From anywhere.
Nor is it a good deterrent.
Akicita
(1,196 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Nihil sub sole novum.
Akicita
(1,196 posts)We should probably quit keeping secrets at home on our private servers.
happyslug
(14,779 posts)Even when they do NOT, the country they spy on keeps them alive hoping to find out what they did sent. It is only when you have a spy that knows nothing that they are executed. That is what happened to the Rosenbergs in the 1950s
More on the Rosenbergs:
Here is the FBI version of the story. The FBI case sets forth the facts in the case, then spins them to show that the Rosenberg were spies. It is clear that Julius Rosenberg was a communist agent, but had done NOTHING since 1945 when he was arrested in 1950. In 1950 Julius Rosenberg was still a Soviet Spy, but never had access to any data on Atomic bombs. Since the Rosenbergs never really had any real secret data on how to make an A-bomb, the FBI report goes to great lengths to avoid saying so AND NOT saying so. Thus the reason for the Rosenberg's execution, they had nothing to trade for they really knew nothing. The people who did know things, traded that information for their lives OR traded in the Rosenbergs:
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/the-atom-spy-case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg
Akicita
(1,196 posts)anigbrowl
(13,889 posts)Not all foreign spies but Chinese ones in particular. Do please explain your thinking on this topic, as the husband of a Chinese person I am very eager to hear your rationale for targeting one particular ethnic group.
Akicita
(1,196 posts)Didn't mean to pick on the Chinese in particular and certainly not as a race. The article was about a Chinese spy. The Chinese government is good at getting our secrets. I wasn't targeting an ethnic group but rather a government. If the Venezueian government is corrupt and you point that out that does not mean you are slurring all Hispanics as corrupt.
snort
(2,334 posts)More like Huang Me.