Google sues Pixel engineer who allegedly posted trade secrets online Google filed a lawsuit last week against an Indian semiconductor engineer for allegedly posting trade secrets related to its Google Pixel chip designs online. Legal action was filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas alleging the engineer, Harshit Roy, engaged in "misappropriation of trade secrets." …
From what I can see, the replies of his Twitter account still show a lot of pictures of schematics, posted on August 21st. Preceded by a message from August 20th that says "@GoogleIndia either reply or i will post all the photos by tomorrow". This is, as they say, a bold strategy and let's see if it pays off for him...
(These seem like posts to me. Why do they show under replies rather than posts?? Twitter is a mystery to me)
>I can no longer read twitter without an account it seems
I never could read Twatter posts without an account, so I never bothered, until I discovered Nitter. Substitute x.xom for a Nitter instance such as xcancel.com
i.e. https://xcancel.com/_harshitroy/with_replies
in shitting on a US tech megacorp for a start and then doing again it in the US. Hell they don't even need to resort of a dodgy extradition request as the silly sod is resident and in, of all places, Texas which probably isn't the wisest choice of the 50 available.
Have to wonder in what discipline his PhD at UT was to be attempted. Advanced Silly Soddery would have to be favourite, or perhaps some other flavour of AI.
I do not imagine his doctoral thesis could be titled "Incorporating Rational Constraints in Artificial Models of Reasoning."
"Keep going"? He's already gone. Any chance Harshit Roy had of getting away with any of it disappeared when he said, in essence, "come and have a go if you think you're hard enough". I'm not a Google fanboy and I'm not upset that one of the world's biggest data thieves have been robbed themselves, but there's ways to go about it. Around Mr Roy did fuck, and find out he shall I'm afraid.
Seems they have been fairly gentle with him so far. Most American corporations would long ago have been pushing for law enforcement to bring all kinds of felony charges, even if the secrets were not really valuable (I'm guessing these weren't that valuable). Google is really showing a human side.
I would love to grab a bag of popcorn and see how this plays out (because any chance to poke Google is worth watching), but I can't help but imagine that any lawyer for the guy is liable to "oh hell no" right out the door when asked to take the case.
Also, while his grievances with Google might be used as some form of mitigation, courts typically have a fairly narrow scope. They won't be interested in "does he want to kick The Man in the balls". They'll be "did you sign an NDA?" followed by "did you then distribute the things covered by the NDA?" Yes or No answers only...
So, yeah, either he's a seriously misguided "radical" that's in the process of tossing his future away, or - as was mentioned above - insanity plea material.
That defense effectively doesn't exist. A true insanity defense requires demonstration, or at least a convincing argument, that the person committing the crimes was so out of reality that they didn't know what they were doing or understand what the effects would be. Someone having a mental illness making it more likely to do stupid things and then doing a stupid thing, fully understanding what they were doing, that they had signed an agreement against it, and what the effects would be won't count. Those illnesses can have an effect on the punishment, but not always, but they have almost no chance of convincing anyone to acquit on that basis. I'm not sure he has other options worth trying, but nearly any alternative would be better than this.
For pictures you took with your phone? You can prove you deleted them from your camera roll, but it is impossible to prove you have deleted all copies and whatever level of proof they asked for you could still squirrel away an unlimited number of copies.
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