POS on the net

[droxy]

If you bought a book from barnes and nobel, check this out:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/10/24/barnes-noble-pin-pad-credit-card/?utm_source=Naked+Security+-+Sophos+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=e0fce13f42-naked%252Bsecurity

LOL- some of my industry drama. 
Huawei has been ripping off designs and intellectual property as far back as 1995,

Comments

[mimimanderly]

This is why I prefer credit cards to debit cards; at least you have some recourse. With debit cards, the money in your account is already gone. I keep ALL my receipts from credit card purchases and match them against my statement each month.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Sophos makes a great product. It's what I have on my Mac.

[droxy]

Its a great site for getting update security issues associated with computing and internetworking. =)

[foxestacado]

When I met with some business people in China, I was talking to them about their business, and I realized they had a business partner, left the business partner, copied their technology, and is selling the technology themselves. I asked, "Isn't that copyright violation?" And they looked me in the eye and said, "Copyright law doesn't apply to us because we're not in the United States. And even if it did, we can't stop because everyone else is doing it."

The point is, China is not enforcing copyright violations on the whole, and because business is so competitive in China, if one business doesn't violate copyright, someone else will. And because it's such a widespread practice, it normalizes it.

[droxy]

Someone once said to me if you are in business and not getting sued, then you are not in business. I think that is a really sad statement

[foxestacado]

Yeah, it's kind of an impossible situation. The fact is, a lot of the business people I've met are good people. They just have questionable morals when it comes to copyright violations. They argue that sometimes their reverse engineering of a product is actually better than it originally was, that they've made improvements. They point to the fashion industry and say that it's been done all the time, even among Americans and Europeans, and yet why is everyone pointing their fingers at China

[droxy]

If they take a base product, like a bike tire, and improve it, that's a design change, and they can copywrite that design change. But it's bad form if they brand it to capitalize on another company's marketing

[droxy]

They've been that way since the 90s

[droxy]

Hee- you would make a great cocktail party guest! Yes, pretty gardens. Mine is overrun with weeds, vines, and suckers. I dont want to go out and do it. But it desperately needs doing.

I used to love yard work.

[droxy]

Yep. The book one is the most critical.

[valis2]

It's rampant among beadmakers, jewelry companies, artists, etc. People are afraid to have a bead designed and made in China, but at the same time, even if you don't do it in China, they still sometimes find it online and copy it. It's getting harder and harder to protect original work.