New Spying Claims Emerge in Silicon Valley Corporate Espionage Scandal (ft.com) 14
A bitter fight over alleged corporate espionage involving two of Silicon Valley's hottest startups took a new twist on Tuesday, after $12 billion HR software company Deel claimed arch-rival Rippling had directed one of its employees to "pilfer" the company's assets by posing as a customer. From a report: The latest claim comes after Rippling alleged earlier this year that a staff member had been spying on behalf of Deel. The employee locked themselves into a bathroom and smashed their phone with an axe when confronted with allegations, according to their own testimony.
In new legal filings seen by the Financial Times, Deel has countered by arguing that: "Rippling has been actively engaged in a carefully co-ordinated espionage campaign, through which it infiltrated Deel's customer platform by fraudulent means and pilfered the company's most valuable proprietary assets."
In new legal filings seen by the Financial Times, Deel has countered by arguing that: "Rippling has been actively engaged in a carefully co-ordinated espionage campaign, through which it infiltrated Deel's customer platform by fraudulent means and pilfered the company's most valuable proprietary assets."
Boring (Score:3)
Nothing new comes out of Hollywood anymore. It's just so boring.
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Nothing new comes out of Hollywood anymore. It's just so boring.
From this article [techcrunch.com], "He testified that he turned over his laptop but hid his phone, escaped to the office bathroom, wiped his phone to factory settings, and pretended to flush it.
He later 'smashed my old phone with an axe and put it down the drain at my mother-in-law’s house' on advice from people he believed to represent Deel, he testified."
So, this guy took an axe to the phone. Extreme, but sort of believable in a wild way. However, then he flushed the phone down the drain? How is that possible?
Spying on HR software (Score:5, Funny)
Bombing (Score:4, Insightful)
Even moderately sized tech companies have billions of investor money and zero oversight.
Matter of time until darwinism does its work and they start assassinations, bombing and other mafia like tactics to stay ahead.
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Last time I checked we do have laws and law enforcement
Your optimism is showing (Score:2)
I hope you're right...
Next Mission Impossible / Bond film plot: mercenaries are employed to blow up all the data centres of a particular tech firm.
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Non-paywalled link (Score:4, Informative)
For anyone who wants to actually read the linked story [archive.is].
Hey V (Score:2)
Lookit all the gonks over there.
Gotta love it! (Score:2)
It makes me a little bit happy to see both predators and parasites eating their own and each other.
OK, you got me - it makes me a lot happy...
There was an ax in the bathroom? (Score:2)
That's kinda scary.