The guy was allegedly stealing all that using Google Drive. I find such moronic behavior really hard to believe. Literally, there’s no illusion of privacy at Google while using company hardware, let alone company services. This has become quite clear after the Levandowsky fiasco - some of the things disclosed there were surprisingly invasive far in excess of what you’d normally expect
He was white washing the documents via Apple Notes and it worked initially. From the indictment I posted here... >In total, DING uploaded more than 500 unique files containing Google Confidential Information, including the trade secrets alleged in Counts One through Four. DING exfiltrated these files by copying data from the Google source files into the Apple Notes application on his Google-issued MacBook laptop. DIN…
Evidently not. It just shows that the guy is not a foreign intelligence operative - a professional could easily operate there for years undetected with fairly basic opsec. That said, aside from things like hardware designs and perhaps certain model weights, I struggle to think of anything at Google that anyone would want that’s not already on GitHub.