Ex-Intel employee busted for trying to take secrets to AMD

Another day, another disgruntled ex-employee trying to schelp stolen trade secrets. This time it's a former Intel engineer named Biswahoman Pani, who nabbed 13 files containing over 100 pages of internal Intel design documents drawings on his way to a new gig at AMD. The FBI got involved when another Intel employee noticed some funny business on system access logs, but so far Biswahoman has denied everything -- although his passport's been confiscated and he never got to take that AMD job. Crime don't pay, kids.

[iPhone @ Sep 12th 2008 7:35PM]

intel FTW!

[JohnTitor @ Sep 12th 2008 8:21PM]

luckily they weren't running on AMD Opteron-based servers, else he would got those 13 files and made it to his new job before they even get find a clue

[Neil @ Sep 12th 2008 7:35PM]

Crime does pay, if you get away with it.

[loosely_coupled @ Sep 12th 2008 10:13PM]

No, crime doesn't win. But what does win is fraudulent and unethical business activity, including fleecing consumers and tax payers out of billions of dollars... just as long as you hire enough lobbyists to grease corrupt republican politicians and their campaigns of deception and distraction. Please take the time to become informed with accurate and unbiased information. Whatever you do, DON'T listen to the broadcast media or advertising on television, as it's all bullshit. Ever so slowly, America is losing it's democracy...

[zomg0t @ Sep 12th 2008 10:49PM]

lol

[zomg0t @ Sep 13th 2008 12:01AM]

lol

[avester @ Sep 13th 2008 4:02AM]

Actually, if this would happen, we, customers, would win.

Better hardware, more competition, who loses? Intel.

[MrMarmite @ Sep 15th 2008 8:33AM]

I love the way people think of anything left of Anne Coutler is "Communist"

[iEye @ Sep 12th 2008 7:39PM]

Idiot, going to prison for stealing a few files just to get a similar job at the competition...

Where I worked I did not even take a pen outside for fear of corporate reprisal!

[iPhone @ Sep 12th 2008 7:49PM]

i didnt know McDonalds was that restrictive? i guess i learn something new everyday..

[Dubb @ Sep 12th 2008 7:57PM]

Maybe one day you'll learn to capitalize the letter i when referring to yourself.

[iEye @ Sep 12th 2008 8:16PM]

I meant was when I was worked in the engineering field, I was sure not to take anything at all out... any file, e-mailed or on a jump drive is considered theft and grounds for dismissal without question.. not to mention a law suit...

These people who do this are children.. They have this idea that its just a little misdemeanor...

I'm sure that if it was possible O'l Steve J. would hang anyone who leaked anything about the new iPods... hang 'em right there on 1 infinite loop in the lunch room for all to see as an example...

[iPhone @ Sep 12th 2008 8:49PM]

I dont know about hanging, but he does have all his employes gagged to not say a word, thats why there are seldom any leaks, which makes his events all the more exciting.

for example, he managed to keep the iphone under wraps for its initial two years of development, nodody even knew about it when he unveiled it.

[Shea @ Sep 12th 2008 7:39PM]

"Another day, another disgruntled ex-employee trying to schelp stolen trade secrets."

I believe it's spelt "schlep" ...

[Zinger314 @ Sep 12th 2008 7:45PM]

Yiddish is serious business.

[tbone @ Sep 12th 2008 7:40PM]

well yeah, pirating is pretty much socially acceptable these days

[JR @ Sep 12th 2008 7:43PM]

Ninety-eight of those pages were probably to explain the naming scheme used for the processors detailed on the remaining two pages.

[POW! @ Sep 12th 2008 7:47PM]

i lul'd

[adam @ Sep 12th 2008 7:50PM]

+1
That was a great comment!!! (As i type this on my Centrino 2 Core 2 Duo P8600 CPU powered laptop haha)

[Dennis @ Sep 13th 2008 3:29AM]

@adam:
nice try but lame joke

@lawyer bird
-1 for copying it

[Daza @ Sep 13th 2008 10:58AM]

This should help understand their naming scheme, 'Intel® Core™ Number ^Numeral'.

[JAmerican @ Sep 12th 2008 7:53PM]

Seems like Intel's criminal (monopolistic) activities in foreign countries pays them well though.

[Kasi Viswanath @ Sep 12th 2008 8:07PM]

I am pretty sure, his name should be Biswa"mohan" and not Biswa"homan". Please correct it.

[Kasi Viswanath @ Sep 12th 2008 8:11PM]

And for the curious, http://www.linkedin.com/ppl/webprofile?id=5735664&lnk=sign_in&action=gwp&trk=ppro_geturl&authType=name&authToken=5_4g

[ping @ Sep 12th 2008 8:50PM]

So he did get the job at AMD afterall :) --ping

[james rose @ Sep 12th 2008 8:50PM]

dang he almost got away with it....oh well those kids and that dog always manage to solve the case

[SleepingPanda @ Sep 12th 2008 10:43PM]

I see what you did thar.

[BigD145 @ Sep 12th 2008 8:57PM]

It pays if you're lobbyist and/or politician. Even if you are caught, it's unlikely you'll see any penalty.

[Brian @ Sep 12th 2008 9:10PM]

What a moron. Enjoy working at Via now, dipshit. That engineering degree is useless.

[Adrian @ Sep 12th 2008 9:53PM]

and the best part is he'll be punished worse than a rapist or a serial killer. In America a crime against a corporation is the worst thing imaginable.

[Itsuru @ Sep 12th 2008 9:56PM]

How dare you hurt big business, you monster!

[siva @ Sep 13th 2008 12:25AM]

You are a xenophobe. While I don't agree with his ethics (if he did the things he is accused of), his resume on Linked In shows that he went to Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay India and University of Mass at Amherst. IIT, India is very hard to get into (something like 10 times harder than MIT). This guy is at a different level intellectually. However, ethically, I guess he is deficient.

Also, people who immigrate to the US legally and are willing to play by the rules are not the ones bringing down the wages. It is the damn corporations and outsourcing for just cost savings.

[eruh @ Sep 12th 2008 11:18PM]

I was thinking "haha that's what you get for outsourcing/downswing." But then I read that he got the knew job at AMD. Why would he risk a new job for something like that? It's not like they could use the plans, whit patent laws and such.

[Wwhat @ Sep 12th 2008 11:30PM]

Does it seem likely someone with minimum technological knowledge would use his own passcode then steal files and expect there were no logs? Seems more likely a 3rd party did it, either because they stole the password (virus?) or because they wanted to get him in trouble for say- moving to a competitor?
On the other hand, most people are dumb.

[Tian @ Sep 12th 2008 11:38PM]

Wow. You should say that to an Indian and see how he feels.

[Hamilton FTW @ Sep 13th 2008 1:52AM]

Does this remind anybody of that little escapade in F1 last year?

[milton thuroughgood III @ Sep 13th 2008 2:45AM]

The worst part is that the files were NetBurst architecture docs.

[Techie @ Sep 13th 2008 4:03AM]

Should of went to the Chinese.

[mindpimp @ Sep 14th 2008 6:02AM]

GONE to the chinese

[luzzio @ Sep 13th 2008 4:19AM]

Aren't they going to investigate if AMD had a hand in this as well?

[Magallanes @ Sep 13th 2008 9:15PM]

Amongst engineers it's pretty common to do it and to carry previous knowledge from the former employee to the new company.

The uncommon case is to be easily caught.

[BOGRASH @ Sep 13th 2008 8:31AM]

AMD are a bunch of cowboys

[icepop4who @ Sep 13th 2008 10:18AM]

why? exactly? you're KKK?

[futurepastnow @ Sep 13th 2008 12:47PM]

And if he had made it to AMD, they would have turned his ass in, as well. Like that chick who stole the formula for Coke and tried to sell it to Pepsi.

It is too dangerous to be caught using another company's trade secrets.

[FTY @ Sep 14th 2008 12:17PM]

I seriously doubt that what goes into Coke is a secret nowdays. Anyone with access to a modern lab can tear the shit out of the ingredients Coke is made off to the the last micron, just bring him a bottle.

[parkside701 @ Sep 14th 2008 3:29PM]

@Neil

Took it right out of my mouth....err... fingertips. Crime does pay if you can get away with it. Corporations are always trying to get inside secrets. Does anyone really think that Sony wouldn't want some Samsung secrets or Microsoft to get there hands on some Apple secrets?

Governments ease drop and attempt to steal from each other every day.

[Mickey @ Sep 15th 2008 7:54PM]

Too bad he didn't read this.. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9999018-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20. All the disgruntled ex-Intel employee needed to to was hack the email system to forward all Intel emails to his personal account and he could have sold them to AMD for millions. That's not Illegal according to the judge in TorrentSpy vs. MPAA. The precedent has been set.