Former Apple Employee Charged with Theft of Autonomous Car Project Trade Secrets

Re:Former Apple Employee Charged with Theft of Autonomous Ca... by _cs2017_ on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @04:30AM (#17505329)

It's hard to believe an Apple employee could have no common sense. But your explanation is still the least unbelievable. So I think you're right.

Then the story is like this. The guy knew it's wrong to take stuff, but hoped nobody would notice. Told his former boss about the new job because why not.

Then Apple security team called, he got scared enough to tell them everything, but not scared enough to leave for China or at least get a lawyer. He even voluntarily gave his wife's computer to them. Maybe he thought it would ok if he was cooperating with them?

Then later, the FBI got involved at the end of June. He finally got seriously scared, bought tickets to China, but by then FBI was already monitoring his movements.

It would be interesting to see his side of the story.

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Re:Former Apple Employee Charged with Theft of Autonomous Ca... by pfisch on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @05:22AM (#17505542)

I mean he already made like 1000 mistakes, but he really should've driven to mexico and flown out of there.

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Re:Former Apple Employee Charged with Theft of Autonomous Ca... by _cs2017_ on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @06:12AM (#17505723)

Omg it's just too funny because it's so irrelevant to the main story and yet you're absolutely right.

Even after the poor sod fought so hard to win the techie version of the Darwin award, he still could have made it to safety. If only he stopped for a moment to think about what he did wrong and learned from his mistakes.

It's like watching a movie with a horrible plot.

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Re:Former Apple Employee Charged with Theft of Autonomous Ca... by antpls on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @08:42AM (#17506391)

People make mistake when they are under pressure, how do you know that guy wasn't being blackmailed, and someone or something threatened to harm his family if he didn't do it?

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Re:Former Apple Employee Charged with Theft of Autonomous Ca... by cm2187 on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @04:48AM (#17505416)

And perhaps he also got some assurance from the Chinese intelligence services and thought he could just run to the embassy. Just speculating. But it wouldn't be the first time China (or any other country) uses their nationals to ex-filtrate IP.

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Re:Former Apple Employee Charged with Theft of Autonomous Ca... by TomMarius on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @05:38AM (#17505604)

While it certainly happened in the past, I don't think it's the case there - the guy tried to cooperate with Apple. I also don't think that he's so morally corrupt that he'd cooperate with Chinese intelligence services and still keep thinking he's doing nothing wrong (as was suggested as reasoning of his behavior in another thread).

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