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Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?

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Re: Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?

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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?

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.

Re: Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?

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post #11
post #8

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?

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.

It's a little harsh to say he deleted the audit trail. He deleted his bash history. Something I do on a near daily basis.

Re: Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?

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My favorite part of all of this is the scare-quotes around "subversion repository"

You think if they chose to use Git for version control the agent would have not thought anything of it? Subversion just sounds too menacing?

Re: Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?

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I 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."

Re: Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?

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As an attorney and someone moderately interested in politics, it's becoming more and more clear that technical literacy is going to play a huge role in law and policy.

We 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.

Re: Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?

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I 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."

You should have taken him to a side and told him to go watch 12 Angry Men when he gets home.

Re: Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?

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On the night of the arrest—without an arrest warrant—Serge waived his right to call a lawyer. He phoned his wife and told her what had happened and that a bunch of F.B.I. agents were on the way to their home to seize their computers, and to please let them in—though they had no search warrant, either. Then he sat down and politely tried to clear up the F.B.I. agent's confusion.

"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

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