You could say they were gathering intel.
Touche! Nice one!
Oh, no! Someone is going to get what was world leading technology if it was 8 years ago this might be a problem.
Not sure what you are refering to.
According to The Mercury News, Jinfeng Luo, who started at Intel in 2014, received a termination notice last July 7th, ending his service with the company at the same month.
They’re saying Intel’s chips suck compared to the competition now, so the data stolen is for technology that is worse than other chips available already (or soon to be available, depending on what was stolen).
Kind of seems like the files aren’t that valuable if they’re only trying to get $250k. Like that’s a large amount of money for most people, but for a big company suing for its IP, that doesn’t sound like that much tbh.
Good for them! I hope they won’t get caught.
More people should rebel and hurt the companies like this. They’re laying people off not because there isn’t work, but because they don’t want to pay. All of the companies doing layoffs are also hiring, only they’ve created a market of desperation so they know they can give workers shitty deals.
Intel and all the other big corpos deserve this.
Everybody laid off needs to make new companies together as well. Good ones not on stock market that are unionized
In cases like this it’s reaaaally hard to just start up a new competitor from nothing (assets wise). Building up production is not cheap.
They already thought of that possibility and have taken over the legal system to mitigate. Corporate patents & NDAs will have some complaints.
There can be reverse situations (e.g. opportunistic individual delivering hard earned data from an honest company to American criminal groups) so its not black and white.
That being said “reap what you sow” can be a fair and just characterisation.
honest company
You have better odds finding Sasquatch and a unicorn than you do finding an honest publically traded company.
“cannot be located” lmao homie’s on a tropical beach now, suckers
More likely Shenzhen. Tropical beaches tend to have extradition treaties. :D
my geography’s trash cuz I’m an American moron but I thought China had at least a few tropical beaches
Bali!
Havana might be nice
Cuba may not have an extradition treaty with the US, but I somehow doubt you can just arrive there, as a relatively well known person of interest and stay there without giving the local thugs a cut.
I would speculate he is working with the CCP.
Oh yeah, I’m sure. Cuba just came to mind as a common vacation destination for the Soviet block back in the day. I’m sure there are other places that are both tropical and within the CCP’s influence, though I do not know these offhand.
That is not how semiconductors work in general, as far as I understand it. All the stories I have heard are of people that love to work for the purpose it brings to their life and are willing and want to work 24/7. Someone like this that takes a bunch of stuff is likely actually taking their own work with them after some corporate shit crushed their life’s work they have spent ages on and raped such a dedicated purpose. They are likely one of a handful of people that actually created all the value in the company but the corporate fuckwit is too stupid to comb through the details to understand the company.
It might be nice, but they don’t have much of a semiconductor industry to sell the files to.
Dudes in China almost certainly
Good for him
tropical beaches with really good public transit and bitchin noodles
How ho you detect someone stole files nowadays? Did they have them printed out on a bookshelf?
Every single access is logged on such systems, regardless what kind of file hosting you use.
An employee suddenly accessing tons of files, potentially in indexing order (meaning they’re either clicking through every link, every folder, every file, or are using an automated tool that does exactly the same), now that’s suspicious.
Combine that with logs from their terminal, which would usually contain things like downloads, file operations, as well as external storage connection/disconnection events, and you can basically get a near perfect map of what they stole and how.
Logs
Who logs who reads files? And even if, who checks those logs? Gotta be a wild system.
Lots of companies maintain access logs. Anything with high security you want to be able to audit who accessed what and when.
But who pays someone to check them?
Normally you just have the systems admin or an automated system look into it. It depends on your security setup.
Yeah I guess that’s the only sane way to do it. A tiny bit crazy the whole system exists, an automatic verification lights up, but only after the dude left.
Why did he have access to all that for starters, why wasn’t the alarms ringing when he did it etc. seems like security at Intel is kind of wonky. 🤷🏻♀️
It might just come down to they never experienced the exact type of espionage so didn’t have strong guardrails to prevent this. Hopefully some security engineers learned a lesson from this and will change their processes.
Siems and such systems are designed for that. Could be part of SOC or CSIRT. Generally all large companies have that. It’s also getting more accessible to smaller structures in the form of « as a service ». A data leak is a data leak whatever the vector so shit needs to be detected & acted upon. It’s all fun & fair games when about Intel secrets it seems but what when a dickhead steals medical data or other perso stuff ?
I check those logs, not for Intel though.
The systems that support this range from simple to unnecessarily complex.
Are you paid to check file access logs?
Yes that’s a small part of my job.
I setup monitoring systems, ingest logs and create rules to detect unusual or malicious behaviour.
Then I perform investigations which sometimes turn into forensic investigations, which sometimes results in legal action.
Someone downloading full datasets that would rarely happen in the regular course of work (unless there was special projec tor some sort).
