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> searched for and installed specialized software onto his company-issued laptop That could mean he downloaded an SFTP client like Cyberduck. He could have sea

by glibgil 10y ago

> searched for and installed specialized software onto his company-issued laptop That could mean he downloaded an SFTP client like Cyberduck. He could have searched the internet for a client and then installed it. It doesn't say he did not have auth. Imagine a Google security engineer being deposed for this lawsuit. Lawyer: "Show me on the MacBook how he downloaded the files" Engineer: "Well, he used Cyberduck" Lawyer: "Is that part of the Mac?" Engineer: "No, he'd have to download it separately" Lawyer: "So, he searched for and installed specialized software onto his company-issued laptop?" Engineer: "Um, sure" Lawyer: "Thank you, that's all the questions I had"

ocdtrekkie 10y ago
This is true, but it doesn't negate the issue. If you need some sort of client to gain access to the design server, and he didn't already have it, it very likely means that he didn't work on those files normally, and hence, really probably shouldn't have had access to them. He may not have installed "hacking tools" or anything like that, but he did specifically take action to access files he didn't normally use as part of his job. Which is, I think, all that this post is claiming.
Kostchei 10y ago
It could also be a e-discovery tool like Nuix. If you want to find all documents containing X amongst millions of docs- that's the sort of tool I would use (work in computer forensics) *edit. And 9.7 GB of data, assuming it's docs not "just' a lot of CAD is a lot of docs..
msbarnett 10y ago
> That could mean he downloaded an SFTP client like Cyberduck. He could have searched the internet for a client and then installed it. It doesn't say he did not have auth. They weren't trying to claim he hacked in. They're making the case he went out of his way to get his hands on these documents, and building a timeline that suggests why he went to that trouble.

by glibgil 10y ago

ocdtrekkie 10y ago

This is true, but it doesn't negate the issue. If you need some sort of client to gain access to the design server, and he didn't already have it, it very likely means that he didn't work on those files normally, and hence, really probably shouldn't have had access to them. He may not have installed "hacking tools" or anything like that, but he did specifically take action to access files he didn't normally use as part of his job. Which is, I think, all that this post is claiming.

Kostchei 10y ago

It could also be a e-discovery tool like Nuix. If you want to find all documents containing X amongst millions of docs- that's the sort of tool I would use (work in computer forensics) *edit. And 9.7 GB of data, assuming it's docs not "just' a lot of CAD is a lot of docs..

msbarnett 10y ago

> That could mean he downloaded an SFTP client like Cyberduck. He could have searched the internet for a client and then installed it. It doesn't say he did not have auth. They weren't trying to claim he hacked in. They're making the case he went out of his way to get his hands on these documents, and building a timeline that suggests why he went to that trouble.