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By YearOfTheDingo on 11/18/2013 1:46:40 AM , Rating: 1
Industrial sabotage carries pretty severe punishment in the PRC. What would a saboteur gain from publicizing this? Not letting people know the defects were caused by sabotage would damage Foxconn more so. Lets hope no one ends up in a labor camp because some idiots in the West chose to repeat an accusation born out of malice.

By Manch on 11/18/2013 6:05:59 AM , Rating: 1
Yeah it's the idiots in the West who are at fault or.... Maybe the dumb@$$ saboteur's shouldnt have done that knowing the consequences...






By YearOfTheDingo on 11/18/2013 10:37:15 AM , Rating: 2
So they're smart enough to engineer a large scale failure that could pass under the eyes of QC, yet are so stupid that they readily reveal themselves? The topic name of the message above contains the name of the college the alleged saboteurs attend. That means Foxconn could easily narrow down which group of people were involved if such a plot really had existed. Why would the saboteurs deliberately give themselves away like that?

Smell like a hoax to me.

By Manch on 11/18/2013 10:41:21 AM , Rating: 2
Go read any book about spies and sabotuers and how they were busted. It's always dumb crap they never thought would hurt them, or someone doing somthhing out of emotion and not thinking rationally. I'm sure it wasnt there intent to expose themselves but to send a message about the working conditions. They probably didnt think it thru when they posted and that is noones fault but the poster.

By YearOfTheDingo on 11/18/2013 1:41:43 PM , Rating: 2
If their intent is to send a message about the working conditions at Foxconn, would it make sense to post a message about the working conditions at Foxconn ? There's nothing pointing to grievances that the alleged saboteurs suffered. The message reads roughly like this: Every time I see an advertisement for the PS4, I laugh. Sony made a big mistake entrusting production to Foxconn. Foxconn made a big mistake entrusting it to us, students at the Northern Information Technology Institute. Foxconn doesn't treat us as humans. We also don't treat their products as high quality products. The best hope is the machine will turn on. Ha ha! September 9th [sic] when the PS4 officially launches will be the day Sony and Foxconn go out of business.

If there were a concerted effort to disrupt the PS4 launch and the perpetrators want the world to know about it, one expects them to lay out the reasons behind their action. Instead, the poster is laughing about people getting DOA PS4. Not exactly a way to win outside sympathy. And why does the poster found it necessary to specifically name the school he supposedly attend?

By Manch on 11/18/2013 5:01:31 PM , Rating: 2
Like I said, posting crap out of emotion without thinking it thru. Your translation of the post proves my point. This part below


Well in the post they allude to the fact that Foxconn does't treat us as humans and says what school they attend. Sounds like a grievance to me, and a free clue for the investigators. Either way, my point is if they get busted its not because it was picked up on by the news in the west, it's because they took little effort in hiding who they are. We will see if this leads anywhere shortly. Probably be another Dailytech article about workers getting thrown int he slammer for sabotage. If you dont want people to know it was your handiwork then just STFU. Otherwise, you're gona get caught.

