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Re:Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to ide... by zzleeper on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @08:31AM (#33622589)
From Wikipedia:

After a series of leaks at Tesla Motors in 2008, CEO Elon Musk reportedly sent slightly different versions of an e-mail to each employee in an attempt to reveal potential leakers. The e-mail was disguised as a request to employees to sign a new non-disclosure agreement. The plan was undermined when the company's general counsel forwarded his own unique version of the e-mail with the attached agreement. As a result, Musk's scheme was realized by employees who now had a safe copy to leak.[4

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Re:Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to ide... by dekhn on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @10:13AM (#33624372)
"Curses! Foiled again by my own insubordinates"
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Re:Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to ide... by williamsmj on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @10:34AM (#33624764)
Yep. The story as Musk tells it, and as goes viral every couple of months, is a lie.
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Re:Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to ide... by tb0ne on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @11:25AM (#33625744)
Where has Musk told the story?
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Re:Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to ide... by williamsmj on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @02:35PM (#33629226)
https://twitter.com/pnikosis/status/1592823543498436611. Apparently that quote is from a (now deleted) tweet of his per https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/worl....
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