Ex-Apple executive jailed and fined for selling secrets
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#2>> Investigations into his behaviour started after emails were found in which he agreed to hand over inside information in return for payment.
I'd be curious to see how exactly this occurred. The above blurb is the only mention of it in the entire (super short) article.
I'm curious for two reasons:
1) I work for a big tech company and have a technology consulting services company on the side. I'm curious to see how my outside emails may be eavesdropped upon.
2) Were those emails obtained legally? I can't imagine he was using his apple email to send the emails, does this mean they went through his personal email? If so, was this done legally?
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#3>> Investigations into his behaviour started after emails were found in which he agreed to hand over inside information in return for payment. I'd be curious to see how exactly this occurred. The above blurb is the only mention of it in the entire (super short) article. I'm curious for two reasons: 1) I work for a big tech company and have a technology consulting services company on the side. I'm curious to see how m…
You can assume, any internet activity you do on enterprise network is scanned.
Re: Ex-Apple executive jailed and fined for selling secrets
#4I thought trade secrets were a civil, not a criminal, matter.
Re: Ex-Apple executive jailed and fined for selling secrets
#5I thought trade secrets were a civil, not a criminal, matter.
If it was flagrant and damages are obviously there I could see it prosecuted as grand theft or trafficking in stolen goods. Could also fall under computer fraud and abuse act or wire fraud statutes depending on what he did. But IANAL.
It's also possible that he did other things to gather or sell secrets that are criminal-- wiretapping, theft of private communications, entering offices when people aren't there, etc.
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#6I thought trade secrets were a civil, not a criminal, matter.
The Economic Espionage Act of 1996 criminalized the misappropriation of trade secrets:
Re: Ex-Apple executive jailed and fined for selling secrets
#7>> Investigations into his behaviour started after emails were found in which he agreed to hand over inside information in return for payment. I'd be curious to see how exactly this occurred. The above blurb is the only mention of it in the entire (super short) article. I'm curious for two reasons: 1) I work for a big tech company and have a technology consulting services company on the side. I'm curious to see how m…
From another article: According to the suit, Apple began its own internal investigation of Devine in April, and uncovered the trove of e-mails he purportedly sent to alleged Singaporean accomplice Andrew Ang and several Asian companies containing confidential data and instructions on how to pay his kickbacks. This occurred when Apple officials discovered a Microsoft Entourage database of Devine's Hotmail and Gmail accounts "on the imaged copy of Devine's laptop hard drive."
src: http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/08/17/paul-shin-devin...
Also, most employers will tell you that they can (& will) monitor any activity done on your company issued devices (laptop, phones, anything). That seems pretty standard.
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#8Greed; it gets you to the top, but it's a fickle and volatile nature can quickly spin out of control.
Re: Ex-Apple executive jailed and fined for selling secrets
#9>> Investigations into his behaviour started after emails were found in which he agreed to hand over inside information in return for payment. I'd be curious to see how exactly this occurred. The above blurb is the only mention of it in the entire (super short) article. I'm curious for two reasons: 1) I work for a big tech company and have a technology consulting services company on the side. I'm curious to see how m…
From another article: According to the suit, Apple began its own internal investigation of Devine in April, and uncovered the trove of e-mails he purportedly sent to alleged Singaporean accomplice Andrew Ang and several Asian companies containing confidential data and instructions on how to pay his kickbacks. This occurred when Apple officials discovered a Microsoft Entourage database of Devine's Hotmail and Gmail ac…
Thanks.
Re: Ex-Apple executive jailed and fined for selling secrets
#10I thought trade secrets were a civil, not a criminal, matter.
According to the description it was more a "kickback scheme" than selling trade secrets.