20 points Levitating 46 minutes ago 11 comments
like_any_other 28 minutes ago | parent
The source said Liu was apprehended at Bangor International Airport (BIA) trying to catch a flight back to China, though the court records do not confirm the nature of his apprehension. - https://www.themainewire.com/2026/09/chinese-national-accuse...
Oddly the Tom's Hardware article, authored by "Zhiye Liu", omits this. But it's not really relevant - I'm sure there are lots of people with names like "Steve Robinson" or "John Wayne" in supervisory roles at China's CBP-equivalent, and staffing their news media.
walrus01 20 minutes ago | parent
If you've ever driven through the land crossing border in either direction at Calais, Maine (and St. Stephen, NB), they're both really tiny and sleepy places. It's astonishing to think that he wouldn't get caught. Like, you cripple the PCs of a place where your colleagues use them on a day to day basis and think nobody is going to notice? Real genius move there, bud.
pushcx 19 minutes ago | parent
Many years ago, I arrived to my half-height cubicle at a Fortune 100 company to see that my desktop PC case was ajar. I set the CRT aside, opened it, and realized that the RAM had been removed. My neighbor explained what must have happened: another employee must have needed to double their RAM from 8 to 16 MB. Requisitioning an upgrade was a weeks-long bureaucratic process that required approval by one's manager and IT, perhaps prompting a review of per-team resource allocation. Repairing a broken PC was a trivial help desk ticket; my PC was restored in an hour or two.
geetee 14 minutes ago | parent
Why in the world is U.S. Customs and Border Protection hiring foreign nationals?
walrus01 10 minutes ago | parent
I'm fairly sure you need to at least be a Permanent Resident to get hired, which makes you a US Person (it's a distinct legal definition). Permanent residents are also able to join the military and have been able to do so for a long time. There's enough of them that during the peak of the Iraq War they even held in-country citizenship ceremonies at major bases for people who had filed and completed their citizenship paperwork.
jeffbee 7 minutes ago | parent
For the same reason that foreign nationals can join the military, including the Coast Guard that has an overlapping mission: it's a nation of immigrants and for centuries until very recently most Americans readily recognized the value and necessity of recruiting foreign people into various posts.