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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has accused a Tesla employee of "quite extensive and damaging sabotage to our operations," according to an email obtained by CNBC. In the all-hands email to Tesla staff, Musk wrote that the employee had made "direct code changes" to the company's production systems, as well as exporting "large amounts" of Tesla's data to unknown third parties.
According to Musk's email, the unnamed employee claimed he had become disgruntled after failing to receive a promotion. However, the Tesla CEO also suggested the alleged saboteur could have been working with short sellers, oil and gas companies—whom he described as "sometimes not super nice"—or "the multitude of big gas/diesel car company competitors." Of this last group, Musk reminded his employees that, since the traditional OEMs have been known to cheat emissions tests, "maybe they're willing to cheat in other ways."
[...] Tesla has faced plenty of criticism about its ongoing troubles in ramping up Model 3 production. But that may have been unwarranted if those problems were due to sabotage. We reached out to Tesla regarding CNBC's story, but the company declined to comment at this time.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday June 19 2018, @09:51PM (4 children)
http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/19/technology/tesla-fire-musk-note/index.html [cnn.com]
In an email to Tesla employees late Sunday night, CEO Elon Musk says that an unnamed employee admitted to sabotaging the company's Freemont, California plant.
And of course CNN never lies.
Also at https://www.pcmag.com/news/361924/elon-musk-tesla-is-a-victim-of-sabotage [pcmag.com]
Odd that Arthur's submission missed this fact.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday June 19 2018, @09:54PM (2 children)
The source is still the Musk email, so grain of salt. Let's see the employee fess up in an apology video, or get prosecuted for it.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday June 21 2018, @01:58AM (1 child)
Ok, Employee fessed up, and is being sued in court:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/tesla-sues-employee-alleged-to-have-stolen-gigabytes-of-data/ [arstechnica.com]
What's your next Musk Doubt...?
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday June 21 2018, @07:45AM
Tesla sues ex-employee for hacking and theft. But he says he's a whistleblower [cnn.com]
You're still uncritically parroting Tesla's side of the story.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @10:56PM
Was his name Elon? Is that why there's so few employees producing so few vehicles? [twitter.com]