Valeo claims Moniruzzaman realized the expertise he had gained working on its projects made him “exceedingly valuable to Nvidia.” In 2021, according to the lawsuit, shortly before he left Valeo, Moniruzzaman spirited tens of thousands of files and six gigabytes of the company’s source code to his personal email account. He allegedly tried to hide his misconduct by subsequently deleting his personal account’s authorized access to the Valeo network.
Almost as dumb as the person who tried to steal Coca Cola’s inner can coating trade secrets
It was pretty recent, so you won’t find it in GPT. A chemist was going to be laid off, and in a last ditch effort she copied a bunch of formulas and applied for grants to develop them in China iirc. Here’s an article: news.bloomberglaw.com/…/coca-cola-chemist-gets-14…
Trade secrets aren’t patented because when you patent something, it’ll immediately become public knowledge (not secret anymore) in exchange for exclusive right (no one can use it without your permission) until the patent expires. Coca cola recipe and KFC’s secret spices are examples of trade secrets. If they’re patented, people would’ve been able to create exact copies by now.
The “secret spices” are salt, pepper, paprika, powdered garlic, powdered onion, and some other stuff. Cayenne in the spicy ones. It’s not a secret. People didn’t discover fried chicken yesterday.
Wasn’t exactly NVIDIA, but an employee from another company who was hired by NVIDIA. Whether NVIDIA asked the employee to steal for them will probably determine how deep in hot water they are.
Proprietary is a way to keep market share longer than the competition, that’s it. If you figured something complex out earlier, then you’re set for a while until your competition figures it out too.
This is a silly hot take. If I figured something out before the rest of the world, I’m entitled to my knowledge and don’t owe sharing it with the world if I don’t want to.
Well, I'm sure that if the Idaho National Laboratory caves to these hackers' demands and invents a particle beam cannon that transforms its target into a catgirl it's likely that the technology will be possible to generalize into catboys, foxgirls, and other similar animal-people. Heck, perhaps they can dial it all the way up to deer. I'll need to come up with a more specific username if that happens. So even if these hackers aren't NCD themselves they're probably natural allies.
Groups like this do it because they can, and usually not for any other reason. If they cared about anything they would make statements about how easy it would be for foreign governments to do the same thing they did, or work on taking down alt-right cesspool websites or whatever.
Reactor development HR departments aren't really national security targets. I mean MAAAYBE you could get plutonium if you blackmailed them, but not really.
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