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Goldman Sach programmer released
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Originally posted by The articleOn his last day of work at New York-based Goldman Sachs in June 2009, Aleynikov uploaded hundreds of thousands of lines of source code from the firm’s high-frequency trading system, prosecutors said.
He circumvented Goldman Sachs’s security, sent the code to a server in Germany, compressed and encrypted it, and took it with him to a meeting with new employers in Chicago, the U.S. said. Prosecutors argued Aleynikov wanted it as a “cheat sheet” to start a trading system at his new job.Comment
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Hmmmm.... i was considering taking my source code with me from my current client when i leave.
Not because it has any worth, but because they are that incompetent they would probably lose it and want me to re-do it at some point in the future.Contracting: more of the money, less of the sh1tComment
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He was probably using it as either a learning tool or as a reminder of the work that he actually worked on. If he tried to use that code and sell it to some third party fair enough ... but 8 YEARS in a Federal prison for nicking code from an investment bank ??!??!??!??? The code I've seen in investment banks is mostly totally useless outside of that particular bank and in many cases so poorly written its as the poster above clearly states .. source material for 'how NOT to code' / 'engineer systems'.
HmmmmmmmComment
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Originally posted by Churchill View PostOi aTw, what would you do if Gladys the tea lady stole your sourcecode?Comment
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Originally posted by sbakoola View Post8 YEARS in a Federal prison for nicking code from an investment bank ??!??!??!???Comment
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