<story><title>Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company&apos;s code</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/nvidia-sued-for-stealing-trade-secrets-after-screensharing-blunder-showed-rival-companys-code-063009605.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>I seriously do not understand why any employee would steal their previous employers&amp;#x27; code to use at a new employer.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s little-to-no personal upside, and only horrible downside if you get caught.&lt;p&gt;I mean, this guy:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Moniruzzaman allegedly gave his personal email unauthorized access to Valeo&amp;#x27;s systems to steal &amp;quot;tens of thousands of files&amp;quot; and 6GB of source code shortly after that development... Valeo said its former employee admitted to stealing its software and that German police found its documentation and hardware pinned on Moniruzzaman&amp;#x27;s walls when his home was raided.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;And while Nvidia presumably hired him for his expertise, they certainly didn&amp;#x27;t expect him to be stealing code, not even wink-wink-nudge-nudge. Corporate lawyers at trillion-dollar-companies take this stuff &lt;i&gt;super&lt;/i&gt; seriously.&lt;p&gt;So this guy puts himself at massive legal risk... for what? So he can slack off for a few months while he pretends to write code that&amp;#x27;s already been written -- and gets to browse Reddit? Or so he can deliver code extra-fast in hopes of a quicker promotion -- that may or may not come? Is that really worth it?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s crazy to me. Why would you risk that?</text></comment>
<story><title>Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company&apos;s code</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/nvidia-sued-for-stealing-trade-secrets-after-screensharing-blunder-showed-rival-companys-code-063009605.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pritambaral</author><text>TFA makes it sound as if the entirety of the blame can be placed on one employee. Sure, his actions do seem to support that view, but then again, Nvidia did hire him precisely for his previous experience at this rival company, on the very same project that the two companies were partnered on, which is the same project that Nvidia hired him for.&lt;p&gt;There is no argument to be made that Nvidia wasn&amp;#x27;t aware he&amp;#x27;d be coming with secrets. The argument that that&amp;#x27;s precisely why he was hired, OTOH, is looking very strong.</text></comment>