People stand outside an Apple Inc. store in Shanghai, China, on Friday, July 6, 2018. As a trade war looms, one of Chinese President Xi Jinping's biggest weapons could be boycotts of American brands by his country's legion of consumers. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
News last week that a former Apple employee had been charged with stealing trade secrets from his former boss was just the latest example of how Silicon Valley technology comes with an underbelly full of copyright monkey business, trade-secret thievery and good old-fashioned stick-'em-up robberies.
The charges filed July 9 against Xiaolang Zhang in the US District Court of Northern California accuse the one-time Apple hardware engineer of trying to abscond with company secrets after he'd left to work for another company. He was picked up by US federal agents over the weekend as he tried to go past TSA agents at the airport in San Jose on his way to China. He'd been on an Apple team working on autonomous cars, a corner of the tech giant's operation known for its especially high wall of secrecy.
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