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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: 3, Interesting) by melikamp on Tuesday June 19 2018, @10:11PM (2 children)
Hahahahaha, secret proprietary code can't get a decent review because one would have to jump through flaming hoops just to get read access? Who would have thunk it...
In other news, Elon Musk is stuck with permanent erection ever since he was able to push "direct code changes" into cars ostensibly owned by Tesla's customers, and export "large amounts" of the same customers' private data collected from the same cars to any bidder, high and low.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday June 19 2018, @10:14PM
inb5 Autopilot deaths get blamed on employ33 c0de sab0tage.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @10:41PM
I see what you did there