Where in the article is the actual story? Can someone please point me to the page and paragraph that contains what actually happened? What did he do?
Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?
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#12Where in the article is the actual story? Can someone please point me to the page and paragraph that contains what actually happened? What did he do?
My understanding is he copied a bunch of confidential code off company servers and then deleted the audit trail from the servers. He claimed that the confidential code copied was accidental and that he only meant to copy some open source code.
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#13My favorite part of all of this is the scare-quotes around "subversion repository"
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#14At one point, when I was splitting some hairs and discussing the meaning of some small details from the evidence, one of the other jurors got impatient and reached for the coroner's photo of the victim. "Someone died here, you realize."
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#15We desperately need more politicians, bureaucrats and law enforcement who at least have some basic technical knowledge.
Empathy is the only way to prevent stuff like this.
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#16Where in the article is the actual story? Can someone please point me to the page and paragraph that contains what actually happened? What did he do?
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#17ITT: journalists don't "get" programming.
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#19I was on a jury for a murder trial, and so I have some insight into how juries work. At one point, when I was splitting some hairs and discussing the meaning of some small details from the evidence, one of the other jurors got impatient and reached for the coroner's photo of the victim. "Someone died here, you realize."
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#20"He was completely not interested in the content of what I am saying. He just kept saying to me, 'If you tell me everything, I'll talk to the judge, and he'll go easy on you.' It appeared they had a very strong bias from the very beginning. They had goals they wanted to fulfill. The goal was to obtain an immediate confession."
Don't talk to police! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc