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Isn't that guilty until proven innocent? Rather, I would think that whoever does the prosecution would need to prove the execs knew of the hack prior to selling

• all2 7y ago
  A subpoena of exec email accounts could sort out who knew what very quickly.
• firethief 7y ago
  When you are exposed to information that it would be improper to act on, you generally have to demonstrate affirmatively that your decisions aren't based on it to stay out of hot water. It's the same deal as clean-room reverse engineering, where you need separate teams with a lawyer as a firewall to prove you're only replicating certain aspects of the source. It's not that presumption of innocence isn't applicable; it's just, when your defense is that you tracked provenance in your head and were careful to ignore the tainted information when thinking about certain things, it probably won't be hard to prove you guilty.
• eloff 7y ago
  If they're high level execs, presumably they know about major company news. I don't think that's hard for the prosecution to establish.