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Tesla has sued an employee it accuses of illegally transferring company data to outsiders:
According to the civil complaint that was filed in federal court in Nevada, Tesla accused Martin Tripp, who began working in Sparks as a "process technician" in October 2017, of exporting company data:
Tesla has only begun to understand the full scope of Tripp's illegal activity, but he has thus far admitted to writing software that hacked Tesla's manufacturing operating system ("MOS") and to transferring several gigabytes of Tesla data to outside entities. This includes dozens of confidential photographs and a video of Tesla's manufacturing systems.
Beyond the misconduct to which Tripp admitted, he also wrote computer code to periodically export Tesla's data off its network and into the hands of third parties. His hacking software was operating on three separate computer systems of other individuals at Tesla so that the data would be exported even after he left the company and so that those individuals would be falsely implicated as guilty parties.
In a supposed email exchange with CEO Elon Musk after the lawsuit was filed on Wednesday, the employee and Musk traded barbs. The employee claims to be a whistleblower bringing attention to battery, safety, and waste issues.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @05:07PM (3 children)
all of their information to encourage the electric car industry.
(Score: 2) by e_armadillo on Friday June 22 2018, @05:17PM (1 child)
They gave away many of their patents, but not their manufacturing processes
"How are we gonna get out of here?" ... "We'll dig our way out!" ... "No, no, dig UP stupid!"
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @06:01PM
Going from what my friends in the car industry tell me (based in Japan), that is basically the whole industry. Designing a new car is almost insignificant compared with building a factory to manufacture a million of them a year is the hard part. Patents are easy to circumvent, so it would seem that if he was truly interested in seeing the electric market take off, sharing the manufacturing process is what he would be doing.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday June 22 2018, @06:36PM
Tesla battery patents further proof of Elon Musk’s duplicitous views on patents [ipwatchdog.com]
Not all of it. Some of it, maybe.
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