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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: 2) by Immerman on Friday June 22 2018, @08:10PM (1 child)
So the law has redefined sabotage to include espionage. Sad, but legal definitions of terms frequently depart from their common meanings.
And no - stealing plans does NOT remove the companies edge - *destroying* those plans, so they had to be recreated from scratch (or at least memory), would do that. Making copies does not directly affect the victim in any way, it only means they now have to compete with others that have the same edge.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 23 2018, @06:33AM
If a company A is planning to bid for something expensive, and a competing bidder B gets a copy of A's strategy due to internal spying, that spy did sabotage A's bid.