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Re: Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets

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Serious question: Can we presume he knew he was doing something wrong?

After exfiltrating the data, he was offered a job in Chinese AI startup. Whether or not a real startup, or just s Communist party / military company is an interesting question.

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Serious question: Can we presume he knew he was doing something wrong?

Of course he did. How could he not know taken documents and giving to a competing company wasn’t a violation? Need more locks on this kind of stuff. Should all uploads and content transmissions out of network require an approval by default? Difficult to say it but it needs to be considered

> Should all uploads and content transmissions be locked for employees with foreign ties to an adversarial country?

Profiling works. Profiling is abhorrent to most people in 1st world countries, but it works exceedingly well.

If the hire is from an adversarial country, they should not only be locked but on a watch list. Our 3 letter organizations should be proactive toward information security. We're in the Information Age now. It's time our society treated that information like the gold it is.

Re: Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets

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Google has a fair bit of experience with employees stealing trade secrets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Levandowski#Criminal_c...

It's doubly awkward that this guy apparently doesn't know or underestimate Google's determination to trace employee' access.

Re: Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets

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Serious question: Can we presume he knew he was doing something wrong?

Do you mean morally or legally? It's hard to imagine a Google engineer not knowing that sharing trade secrets is something their employer would seriously frown upon, no?
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