US Navy sailor admits selling secret military blueprints to China for $15K A US Navy service member pleaded guilty yesterday to receiving thousands of dollars in bribes from a Chinese spymaster in exchange for passing on American military secrets. Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, 26, aka Thomas Zhao, of Monterey Park, California, now faces up to 20 years in prison for two federal felony offenses: …
That would be a mercy compared to the ongoing suffering/erosion of self he's dealing with now until enough distinctive change and thought generation invalidates the previous person.
5 years into this whatever he has become well been so distorted by his experience as of not even fairly be considered the same person in that body.
Either way whatever he was before is rapidly eroding and will soon be dead replaced by a new pattern of experience and perception and emotion generating heuristics within the same living body.
Curious, I thought he would be paid in diamonds . . .
I am a jeweler, but I don't deal in diamonds. I am glad I don't, now, because since 1. Russia opened its diamond vaults a few decades ago, and broke DeBeers' monopoly and 2. the rise of lab grown diamonds making the process cheaper and easier, leading to oversupply, diamond prices are crashing through the floor. They are actually getting cheaper year by year.
from the trade magazine Instore: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjPspiZ0_CBAxUvHjQIHbrCAMMQFnoECBQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Finstoremag.com%2Fdiamond-prices-continue-to-fall%2F&usg=AOvVaw3LPbGj9beafP3thEzYY0uI&opi=89978449
What kind of wrong are you referring to? Do you mean ethically wrong or pragmatically wrong? Either way, I'd have thought those were obvious:
Ethically wrong: Take a job where you're not supposed to sell secret information, sell secret information.
Pragmatically wrong: Sell secret information for a tiny amount of money, have no backup escape plan for if you get caught, do the stealing so badly that you do get caught.
I've said it before - https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2020/09/10/uk_china_ambassador_twitter_hack/#c_4105717 - reproduced below (using a different handle).
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Unfortunately any person of Chinese descent is vulnerable to the CCP, no matter for how many generations they may have lived outside China. If there are relatives back in China then pressure can be exerted - 'it would be a shame if Uncle Ying and Aunt Tong lost their house, think of poor little cousins Tiddle, Aye and Po'.
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On the Ning Nang Nong Where the Cows go Bong!
And the Monkeys all say Boo!
Theres a Nang Nong Ning Where the trees go Ping!
And the tea pots Jibber Jabber Joo On the Nong Ning Nang All the Mice go Clang!
And you just cant catch em when they do!
So it’s Ning Nang Nong! Cows go Bong! Nong Nang Ning!
Trees go Ping! Nong Ning Nang! The mice go Clang!
What a noisy place to belong,Is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!
On that basis, multiple countries have the ability to find some relatives of mine and punish them to blackmail me. They'll have to use fourth cousins and it will take some investigatory work to find them, because even I don't know who they are, but I know they exist. If they're willing to use friends of mine, they can find some more direct links because I know a few people in several countries. However, I don't think they'll do that, because how persuasive is a threat against a relative you've never met? They could as easily say "spy for our country or we'll punish this random person you don't know", and while that's an intriguing tactic, it's unlikely to work.
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