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This was my thought exactly. Sounds like they hired an ex-CIA field operative who was expert at what he was doing.
by woodandsteel 8y ago
This was my thought exactly. Sounds like they hired an ex-CIA field operative who was expert at what he was doing.
- woodandsteel 8y agoFurther thought: if they know who they guy is and press criminal charges, they could pressure him to reveal who was behind it.
- lovich 8y ago>"This included making direct code changes to the Tesla Manufacturing Operating System under false usernames and exporting large amounts of highly sensitive Tesla data to unknown third parties." What in here indicates ex-CIA operative to you? Theres no need to add any conspiracy around it. Adding a commit with a different username is incredibly trivial to anyone who can run commit with the command line, i.e. 99% of software engineers. As for exporting data to unknown third parties, I have seen interns do this by accident. Its not complicated or needs rare skills to do a lot of damage internally. If Tesla runs fast and loose with ideas like their PR pieces suggest, I doubt their security is incredibly top notch in terms of locking down internal threats either
- woodandsteel 8y agoWhat matters is motivation. A person who is trained in sabotage, is used to doing it, and is being well-paid to do it is a lot more likely to so behave than a regular person who knows they will likely go to jail if they get caught. And there are lots of actors out there who have both the funds and motivation to hire such a person.