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This is a satire account, if the recent tweets and inclusion of TC didn't tip it already.
Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets
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#193If any of you get this far down, one thing that caught my eye is that Google said they had analyzed this guy’s network traffic after locking his laptop, confirming various things. If you work at a large company like Google, every packet on their employee access network is recorded and indexed for forensic purposes.
This is not something Google would talk about publicly, but it’s standard practice in any company that is a serious target for sophisticated cyberespionage to spend a great deal on specialized equipment that can log all network traffic at scale.
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#195If any of you get this far down, one thing that caught my eye is that Google said they had analyzed this guy’s network traffic after locking his laptop, confirming various things. If you work at a large company like Google, every packet on their employee access network is recorded and indexed for forensic purposes. This is not something Google would talk about publicly, but it’s standard practice in any company that…
It's SOP in all companies, not just those facing sophisticated threat actors - there's a reason EDRs like Crowdstrike and SentinelOne are massive players now.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did that person just go around disclosing their plan?
Having seen something like this happen once, what probably happened was the person OP is referring to was trying to get IP in order to start their own private sector startup, and probably get some seed funding from a regional government (eg. Beijing and Hangzhou did this in the 2000s to jumpstart their tech industry) It's similar to the Israeli program in the 90s (who's name I'm blanking out on EDIT: Yozma I before i…
> It's similar to the Israeli program in the 90s (who's name I'm blanking out on EDIT: Yozma) because just like China in the 2000s-early 2010s, there wasn't a notable private sector VC industry yet.
Quite an allegation... any reference to them sponsoring/encouraging stealing IP or am I misreading and you simply meant it's a government sponsored startup accelerator program?
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The entire history of man counters this. So while you might be advocating for some Star Trek world peace fantasy, historical and present realities differ. And that reality is what leadership and everyday people live in. A zero sum game.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
You expect Google to scan the database of companies in every country continuously to see if employees are executives of them? How would this handle different people who have the same name? Disclosure: I work at Google.
> You expect Google to scan the database of companies in every country continuously to see if employees are executives of them? How would this handle different people who have the same name? > Disclosure: I work at Google. It's Google. Not a mom and pop shop, not a startup, not even a large bank. It's a massive conglomerate who's entire business model revolves around data. So yes. And same-name conflicts can be handl…
I'm not aware of any corp doing this and why should they? There are as many valid reasons registering a company without affecting your employment.
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> But I'm not sure the account is a parody The content is very clearly parody. Not only this Tweet, but other Tweets. It doesn’t matter if it’s a real person or not, the content is obviously parody. It’s alarming that such obvious satire/parody is not only going undetected, but that people are continuing to debate it after it has been pointed out to be obvious parody content. Does not bode well for the future of onli…
To me, a parody account would have to be a different person than claimed, which I think is incorrect. Satire, yes for sure. I am not arguing that this account is serious in any way. As far as detecting it, well American politicans at this point are a caricature of themselves and have made it much more difficult. I don't like it either.
You already concluded the person does not work for Google.
The account claims to be a person working for Google and speaking as a Google VP.
Therefore, it’s a parody account. The fact that a person by that real name exists does not change that fact.