Ex-Intel Employee Charged with $1 Billion for Stealing Secret Information from Intel

[Darkrealms]

LoL, thats funny. I remember when he said his reasons for leaving the first time around were because he and his wife worked in different Intel locations (across the country if I remember).
The only reason to steal that kind of info is to sell it. As he was working at AMD at the time, I'm calling bull* on them not knowing and offering for it. Remember he was working for them while he was downloading it.

Oh and on the comment about AMD not having better tech if they did steal it. They may not use it or they may but just having the info gives them an advantage because the know what Intels plans are. Also it would take months to develop the info into anything useable so we wouldn't see it till next year anyway.

Intel probably went *WTF!*
"Why is an AMD IP downloading our stuff?!?"
"Who's login is that??"
"Fry his ASS!"


FYI here is the link to TPU story on it back in September.

 

[OnBoard]

...they've found eight documents described by Intel as "confidential," "secret" or "top secret."

Why in earth would you mark top secret stuff like that IRL :shadedshu I get why they do it in movies, but I'd mark them something like Pentium III mobile.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

well if AMD had implemented intel techm wouldn't hey have better processors than phenom, and be at 45nm earlier ?

It would appear in Denab and process technology is more or less about materials and machining--not something information alone would help with. Moreover, AMD has always been slow to change processes just because they don't have the capital to do it on their own. They need to piggyback on IBM for that.

...they've found eight documents described by Intel as "confidential," "secret" or "top secret."

Why in earth would you mark top secret stuff like that IRL :shadedshu I get why they do it in movies, but I'd mark them something like Pentium III mobile.

Because it's legally binding. You open something marked with confidential, you get x penalty. Secret and Top Secret are exponentially more severe. If you were to be misleading about it, opening it could be cast off as accidental and not criminal nature. Opening something that is confidential without authorization to do so is purely criminal.

 

[DarkMatter]

He was not downloading from an AMD IP or any other external place. According to the first news that appeared, he did it from his "own" work laptop, which had access to a lot of things. It's a common practice to give acces to some employee's PCs so they can (finalize) work at home or work anywhere. Sometimes the laptop is their only machine. Probably he had access to all those things and he used to work out of hours. So Intel didn't suspect anything until they realised he was downloading too many things to be related to his job.

He said he would go on vacations so that he:

a) was not at Intel offices when stealing.

b) he still had access until the time he would finally leave Intel, giving him plenty of time.

 

[Darkrealms]

He was not downloading from an AMD IP or any other external place. According to the first news that appeared, he did it from his "own" work laptop, which had access to a lot of things. It's a common practice to give acces to some employee's PCs so they can (finalize) work at home or work anywhere. Sometimes the laptop is their only machine. Probably he had access to all those things and he used to work out of hours. So Intel didn't suspect anything until they realised he was downloading too many things to be related to his job.

He said he would go on vacations so that he:

a) was not at Intel offices when stealing.

b) he still had access until the time he would finally leave Intel, giving him plenty of time.

From the post in September. Read when he was supposed to start at AMD:

Without the knowledge of Intel's officials, Pani was discussing a job at AMD and started working for the company on June 2, eight days before his employment with Intel was supposed to end, during which he had the company laptop and access to the company's internal network. He was ordered to give up his passport, but was not taken into custody.

Using his laptop even with a secure connection would have been through an AMD external IP if he was working at AMD at the time which is what these articles imply which is why I said it like that. So his entire vacation he was employed by AMD.

 

[newconroer]

What are you in for? Double homicide.

What are you in for? Robbed a convenience store, things went bad...

What are you in for? Huge coke deal.

And what are you in for? I took information from Intel.
Ok, you're getting F'd in the A this saturday...

Eh, I used to tell jokes in that format..usually revolving around some geek in jail for hacking or stealing a few thousands bucks out of credit cards.

But when you mention 1 billion, I could see the thugs being like 'yo youz a slick nigga yo'

Hehe.

 

[WarEagleAU]

@Istink that was hillarious.

I guess he got shorted in the brains department

 

[qwerty_lesh]

LOL istink, its more like

Pani: What are you in for?
Crim1: Nun massacre
Crim2: Burning down hospitals, you?
Pani: Stealing from Intel

*Crim2 turns and looks at Pani*

Crim2: Youre a monster, the worst kind of person imaginable.

*Crim1 shakes his head*

 

[spearman914]

He should have gave that money to me...

 

[kuroikenshi]

Well.. At least he was going big. If you get caught, at least make it worth the try!

 

[DarkMatter]

Using his laptop even with a secure connection would have been through an AMD external IP if he was working at AMD at the time which is what these articles imply which is why I said it like that. So his entire vacation he was employed by AMD.

Not necesarily at AMD, he probably did that at home. It's not as if they work 24h at AMD you know.

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

I hope they give IDB at his prison

 

[KainXS]

at least intel can sleep happy knowing that he will get his punishment by some big gay guy in jail

 

[Hayder_Master]

no one pay here , only the man is responsible on information