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Re:Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets by mahyarm on Thursday February 23, 2017 @07:43PM (#13719633)
My guess is he still had a network connection up when he did the copy. These kind of things like JAMF, osquery and so on upload what you do on your computer on a fairly frequent basis. After a certain company size all of them do something like this, and most of them do not spell out the amount of spying they do on their employee's work devices and office space.

Or he didn't do a secure wipe when he reformatted the drive and google inspected the computer when he returned it.

OR google modifies their laptops and has separate chips logging this stuff, which would be fairly impressive!

Or he didn't actually do any of this alledged stuff and it's all innocent.

We will find out in the court case either way!

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Re:Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets by x0x0 on Friday February 24, 2017 @01:57AM (#13721638)
I would imagine there are IDS systems running, given Google's state level adversaries.

Accessing large amounts of files you haven't previously accessed and shortly thereafter attaching an external drive should trip a competent IDS.

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Re:Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets by brazzledazzle on Friday February 24, 2017 @03:06AM (#13721926)
Unless it's changed since the last time I played with it osquery doesn't upload anything on its own–it's just a local tool/agent that you can use to gather data. Carbon black is a good example of something like that.

JAMF I believe gathers application usage data but nothing as in depth as what's being discussed. It's also comically handicapped. It somehow manages to do a poor job of everything it tries to do so "the world's largest online Mac administrator community" is forum post after forum post of half understood franken-scripts. I used to think it was milquetoast but after sitting through their sales reps crapping all over open source software (despite extensive use of OSS libs in their products) and seeing it fail to do the most basic stuff out of the box my opinion is that it's over priced crap.

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Re:Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets by jlgaddis on Friday February 24, 2017 @03:04AM (#13721912)
Or, you know, syslog.
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