A former Intel engineer on Thursday pleaded guilty in federal court to stealing and sharing trade secrets, a felony, to benefit himself and his new employer.
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/02/ex-intel-worker-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-trade-secrets.html
@cj+1jmkgap0p You would think everyone would have figured out what the deal is, but looking at the constant stream of pointless spam on this site shows that there are still plenty of fab technicians with diarrhea of the keyboard.
That's ok, the coming fab restructuring (plus AI) should cut that traffic down, unless they somehow are surprised and upset that they got terminated for wasting company resources.
But that might make them post more, so it is hard to tell what the final impact will be, but to be sure up to 50% of them are gone (they just don't yet know it).
This guy would be a GOAT if he hadn’t gotten caught.
Stop stealing bananas at Intel. You are being watched 👀 . There are free bananas at the zoo for monkeys.
We should all do this! Just don’t get caught. Steal everything that’s not nailed down!
He showed them how to pull off the illusion of free bananas while creating inefficiencies
btw, they are also monitoring every website you visit while on the intel network, and you should assume that this is one of the website which are red flagged.
They can link any post you do here or anywhere else, to you WWID.
This is also not a joke, if you want to stay employed.
Not a good time to be stupid.
@bn+1 It's been mentioned before and apparently not taken seriously, but this guy was caught by Information Security.
They have automation which monitors all devices plugged into the intel network.
They even know the serial number and internal identification of the USB, as well as every device it was ever plugged into (this last part is after its use has been detected and they are able to scan it).
The only approved way to get documents off your laptop is to email them to yourself. All emails are also scanned and the email should fail if it contains sensitive info.
Don't even do that in bulk, or you'll be up for scrutiny.
This is not a joke.
I always just assumed this type of thing was happening, but moreso outside the US.
After all, corporate espionage has more or less been China’s entire business model for half a century, hasn’t it?
Unconscionable that it’s taken this long to start trying to lock them out of the global economy. Too little, too late at this point..
He gave up the secret sauce to cut costs and make all the good employees leave. The other half of the plan is spending lavishly on non-profitable boondoggles way outside the core business (of printing money by fabbing world class microprocessors)
How to hire terrible CEO’s and run a good company into the ground, those secrets? Way behind nvidia and AMD secrets? lol.
This is literally how MS entered their Surface product into the market with ARMchips. I'm betting he was sharing the stuff with Microsoft way back in 2010 when he started. I'm also betting this is just a small example of putrid individuals that have been working for the company in this capacity during its demise.
How to hire terrible CEO’s and run a good company into the ground, those secrets? Way behind nvidia and AMD secrets? lol
Is there a portal to submit trade secrets and get paid?
A meeting and file exchange point?
Intel is run by lying, fraudulent crooks. They can fu-k themselves with a rusty spoon. Who at Intel wouldn’t sell the fu-k out of any secret they could get their hands on given the way execs at this company behave?
How else we are going to avoid bankruptcy?
He thought he could put stuff on a usb drive and not be tracked. Not very smart.
of course, probably here on H1B, deport him.
Oregon engineer Varun Gupta spent 10 years working for Intel, most recently in its data center group, before leaving for Microsoft in January 2020. Intel sued him in February, alleging Gupta had loaded “confidential” and “top secret” Intel documents onto portable storage devices before leaving his old job. Intel said he later accessed the information from his Microsoft-issued laptop.
Intel is openly trying to rob the trading secret and money from TSMC. What is it guilty of?
Look at his name.
Well, that gives a new meaning to Intel Inside.
Intel stole shareholders money. Does it plead guilty yet? Nothing is good at Intel. Employees stole Intel then Intel stole shareholders. WTF with this company?
https://www.reuters.com/legal/intel-is-sued-by-shareholders-alleging-securities-fraud-2024-08-07/
There was something worth stealing? Wow.