News Russian Ex-ASML employee indicted for stealing critical trade secrets — currently in custody, faces 20-year Netherlands entry ban

[Admin]

A Russian engineer at ASML has been accused of stealing trade secrets at the company and now faces litigation and an entry-ban.

Russian Ex-ASML employee indicted for stealing critical trade secrets — currently in custody, faces 20-year Netherlands entry ban : Read more

 

[thisisaname]

Someone would stealing chip secrets and a foreigner at that, I am surprised /s

 

[cirdecus]

They just discovered it. This happened long before the invasion of Ukraine and both Russia and China knew they wouldn't need to rely on western chips anymore. How else do you think China is suddenly pushing to 7nm and beyond? The US should've started these bans a long time ago.

 

[williamcll]

Serial killers have been jailed for less.

 

[usertests]

Serial killers have been jailed for less.

The value of a few random human lives pales in comparison to nanoscale manufacturing secrets.

 

[williamcll]

The value of a few random human lives pales in comparison to nanoscale manufacturing secrets.

Technologies that should be open sourced.

 

[NinoPino]

The value of a few random human lives pales in comparison to nanoscale manufacturing secrets.

I really hope in scarcasm.

 

[NinoPino]

Comparing to the source, the TomsH article have a lot of inaccuracies or errors.
The investigated person is not a "Russian-connected individual" but a Russian engineer.
It is not "suspected of potential espionage" but only to have stolen documents.
The documents are not "vital microchip documents from ASML" but, documents and microchip manuals from ASML and Mapper Lithography.
Again, is not "accused of stealing important documents" but accused of stealing "documents".

Interesting is that, he has several patents to his name related to the semiconductor industry, and that in Netherlands he worked for Mapper Lithography, ASML and probably also for NXP. He also worked for Russian's technological companies (I suppose before coming to Netherland in 2015).

 

[bill001g]

More headlines for people who chose not to read. Unless he has a wife and kid that live in the NL and they can't move to russia or where ever he likely is laughing at "entry ban" sentence. Kinda like shoplifters who get lifetime bans from walmart.

They will likely hold him in jail for the couple years it takes for this to go through the court system and he will be sentenced to time served and deported. The NL allows murders to get out after 25 years.

 

[usertests]

I really hope in scarcasm.

Nah. Human life is a commodity with ever diminishing value, and human rights are a polite fiction. Nanolithography is crucial for economic and military purposes. Outside of the obvious application of semiconductor manufacturing, material science advancements are probably becoming a lot more important than we realize.