[BITList] Fwd: Chinese hackers 'steal' blueprints to newAustralianspy HQ - Telegraph

[HUGH]

Mike,

They're all up to all sorts of tricks.  I'm afraid I was being pedantic in 
the matter of blueprints.  In all my time in various drawing offices I 
recall only once seeing a blueprint - that would be about 1953/54. By then, 
it was an outmoded way of printing originals, ie, drawings on transparent 
medium. It was never the drawings themselves. In Kincaids, my second spell 
there, 1980 to about 1990, my last statement would have caused me to be 
taken aside for re-education, moreso because I'd written the QC procedures 
for the technical departments.  For the purposes of manufacture, a drawing 
was defined as a paper print stamped (in red) with an official stamp 
authorising its use for the contract stated thereon, by persons authorised 
to do so. All else was bits of paper of no value.

Hugh.