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Tesla axes software engineer for allegedly pilfering secret Python scripts after just three days on the job

Jellied Eel Silver badge

Re: "Received a computer" "He also installed Dropbox"

Yet I believe all those files were about Tesla cars inner workings, not procurement and payroll - are SAP and Oracle actually the competitors of Tesla? Is MUsk pivoting to ERP?

I'm not a software developer, but curious about.. "representing at least 6,300 files."

That's quite a lot of files, and presumably would include a lot of dependencies & interactions between files to run a business. So curious if trying to do that in Python is either common, or sensible. And given previous cases where employees have stolen Tesla IP, whether they've learned anything. As others have pointed out, why was Dropbox permitted, and why would a new hire be given access to code modules they don't need? So if he was hired to review code relating to specific functional areas, then it would seem sensible to limit access to those function repositories.. Especially as a new, presumably probationary hire.

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