You don’t think that 32MB of data was worth way more?[/quote]
Come on, of course there’s going to be a shell log and network log if he actually tried to upload it to a remote server. It would have been slightly less dumb if he just did something else. Like wrote a script to do the operation and write it to a usb drive pen drive or something.
Next, I’d say one would need to duplicate not just the trading program but also the raw hardware. Even with this software, did he think he can run this on his desktop and execute faster than GS’ arsonal of server banks?
The dude is royally fvcked though. He’s probably looking at least a decade in jail. What would be funny is if you find this trading code on some filesharing website like Kazaa.
If he got just the executable, it’s probably not going to be as useful outside the company..Unless it was writen on an interpreted language, which could easily be decompiled..At which point, you have to wonder WTF was GS doing to put this on something like Perl? If he actually got the source code, then you have to wonder WTF did this person have access to it in it’s entirety?
Either way, GS’ I.T. department gets an F-.[/quote]
“Working through our assistant legal attache in Frankfurt and with the authorities in Germany, the FBI has taken steps to ensure that the appropriated code was not distributed,” FBI spokesman Jim Margolin said.
Sergey Aleynikov, 39, who left Goldman on June 5 for a Chicago firm and was arrested last Friday night, gave consent to the FBI to visit his home in Little Falls, New Jersey, over the weekend and remove all of his personal computers, according to court documents.
They show that Aleynikov, a father of three and a dual national of the United States and Russia, told the FBI he was cooperating because “I did not think I was doing anything wrong” when he downloaded copies to his personal computer, laptop and to a flash drive.
He told investigators that Goldman Sachs knew he worked on the program from home and said nothing about it previously, according to the court record.
Aleynikov said he had no intention of selling the information or breaking his employment agreement. Aleynikov was arrested at Newark Liberty airport in New Jersey on a flight from Chicago on July 3. On Monday, he was released on $750,000 bail, restricted to New York and New Jersey and ordered to surrender travel documents.
I agree to some extent. There has to be something else going on. This guy is some super programmer genius, working on a true WMD (no the G.W. Bush kind), and there’s no protocol in place to keep the guy from just walking away with important data? And, why would this guy risk everything to leak to this?
I bet this guy really, just strolled out of the office, not even thinking about any crazy plots. I’m curious what server in Germany this was uploaded to. Is MobileMe hosted in Germany…lol.
But, beyond all that. The governments response was amazing fast. I’ve had the stereo stolen out of my car. It took forever for the cops to show up.
Why is code dangerous when someone besides Goldman has it?
