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

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Hugh
When I was in the drawing office 57/58 when a drawing was finished and 
had passed all the checks it was sent to the tracers who made a permanent
transparent copy which was the copy kept on file, one of the last jobs I 
had to do was a radar system for a Hydrogen Peroxide propelled submarine 
an experimental craft  which I thought was going to take me ages until I 
was introduced to cut and paste by my mentor it involved looking up the 
records for a similar radar installed on another ship, having the system 
printed off then cutting and patching onto a new sheet adding a few 
lines to marry units together and send it off to the tracers, very 
disappointing but only a few days for a complete package, of course by 
then when they where printed off the tracing the output was no longer 
blue in colour
frank

On 5/29/2013 3:16 AM, HUGH wrote:
> 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.
>
>