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"In one famous 2009 case, Sergey Aleynikov, a former programmer for Goldman Sachs, was arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced to eight years in prison without paro
by bonniemuffin 8y ago
"In one famous 2009 case, Sergey Aleynikov, a former programmer for Goldman Sachs, was arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced to eight years in prison without parole for stealing trade secrets. The trade secret in question was code he had written himself, then backed up onto cloud storage while he was still an employee. There was no evidence he had accessed the code since leaving Goldman Sachs."
Holy shit! I didn't even realize that was a prison-level crime.
- otoburb 8y agoThe article doesn't mention the rest of Aleynikov's history, but he served one year in prison[1] until his NY Supreme Court acquittal. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov
- ljw1001 8y agoBetter than what he was sentenced to, but a year in prison is a long, long time.
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