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Re:Court Overturns Conviction of Ex-Goldman Programmer by msutherl on Friday February 17, 2012 @10:56AM (#3603738)
How would you go about stealing code from Goldman without being detected?
Re:Court Overturns Conviction of Ex-Goldman Programmer by juiceandjuice on Friday February 17, 2012 @01:31PM (#3604413)
If you can't think of some clever ways of doing this (and getting around machine restrictions) you probably shouldn't be employed at GS.
Re:Court Overturns Conviction of Ex-Goldman Programmer by mickey7 on Friday February 17, 2012 @12:11PM (#3604053)
understand it and replicate it
Re:Court Overturns Conviction of Ex-Goldman Programmer by veyron on Friday February 17, 2012 @12:29PM (#3604130)
Cannot be emphasized enough. They can get you for copying code but not for reimplementing functionality if you understood how it was implemented.
Re:Court Overturns Conviction of Ex-Goldman Programmer by AUmrysh on Friday February 17, 2012 @12:27PM (#3604119)
Label it as high risk loan certificates and smuggle it out in a briefcase.
Re:Court Overturns Conviction of Ex-Goldman Programmer by gaius on Friday February 17, 2012 @03:38PM (#3604880)
I'm not sure why you would, without Goldman's entire infrastructure (SecDB, Slang, etc) it probably wouldn't be that useful. The only thing you could "steal" is what's between your ears anyway.
Re:Court Overturns Conviction of Ex-Goldman Programmer by metageek on Friday February 17, 2012 @05:17PM (#3605202)
You'd probably have to write new code; but you could port the algorithms, which are the distillation of their trading expertise. That'd boost you several years ahead in domain knowledge—and, as GS pointed out, you'd also know how GS was going to trade, which would help you predict market movements.

I suspect the latter wouldn't actually be all that accurate, though, since all those split-second decisions are going to be highly dependent on how fast everything runs, which means your GS emulator can't make the same decisions unless you port everything exactly.

Re:Court Overturns Conviction of Ex-Goldman Programmer by gaius on Friday February 17, 2012 @05:34PM (#3605244)
You would also need to replicate the portfolio the algorithm was managing...
Re:Court Overturns Conviction of Ex-Goldman Programmer by benmmurphy on Friday February 17, 2012 @03:08PM (#3604792)
use steganography and smuggle it out inside pictures you upload to your facebook
Re:Court Overturns Conviction of Ex-Goldman Programmer by Bootvis on Friday February 17, 2012 @06:59PM (#3605505)
You can't use Facebook at GS... E-mail should work but might get suspicious.