Industrial Espionage Within the 3D Printing Space

[Brian_Krassenstein]

Yu Long worked as a senior engineer for a Connecticut defense contractor between 2008 and early 2014, and prosecutors say authorities stopped him at John F. Kennedy International Airport in August for carrying undeclared cash, documents for a new Chinese corporation and an application to work at a government aviation research facility in China. The feds say he was also carrying documents that the US Air Force says may be worth $50 million. Read more about the story here: http://3dprint.com/30297/yu-long-industrial-espionage/ ‎


Below is a photo from 2013 showing Yu Long (center) accepting an award:

[Mjolinor]

Nobody takes paper documents through security if they are sensitive. The only reason to take paper documents on a plane is to read them while you are flying.

Something stinks here.

[Feign]

Gotta second Mjolinor here, this is seriously fishy. Also it seems like they just can't pass up an opportunity to try to paint 3D printing as a bootlegging tool.

Credibility is too precious a commodity these days for the government to go wasting it on things like that.