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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, @10:01PM
It's always whistleblowing.
This is my car analogy come to life. I used to explain the explain the Snowden issue with the example of a person "whistleblowing" at a car company! It was Ford though, not Tesla. Maybe it should have been Volkswagen.
So, suppose your employer seems to be cheating on diesel emissions or electric car credits or whatever. You raise the issue at work. Most people disagree that the actions are illegal, and the rest don't want to rock the boat. You decide to get revenge, claiming to be a whistleblower. You dump everything on the internet. You go far beyond the issue at hand. You dump out the financials, the CAD files for future cars, the plans for negotiating with the union, the employee data related to disability accommodations, salaries, VPN logins, web site private certificates, emails of employees sleeping with each other, social security numbers, and much more. You don't even know what it all is. Torrent away! It's totally OK because your personal opinion (which, though correct, hasn't been proven in court) is that something crossed the line. You're a whistleblower. That make you a hero. Nobody can question how much of a hero you are.