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Goldman Sachs Trading Source Code In the Wild?
Hangtime writes "The world's most valuable source code could be in the wild. According to a report by Reuters, a Russian immigrant and former Goldman Sachs developer named Sergey Aleynikov was picked up at Newark Airport on July 4th by the FBI on charges of industrial espionage. According to the complaint, Sergey, prior to his early June exit from Goldman, copied, encrypted and uploaded source code inferred to be the code used by Goldman Sachs to process in real-time (micro-seconds) trades between multiple equity and commodity platforms. While trying to cover his tracks, the system backed up a series of bash commands so he was unable to erase his history, which would later give him away to Goldman and the authorities. So the question is: where are the 32MB of encrypted files that Sergey uploaded to a German server?
Oh look: now they check FBIs intel on LinkedIn to see if they got it right.
mov ax,4c00h
int 21h
Pure evil partnered with Linux?
I'm pretty sure that can't happen. I'm going to pray to Linus for guidance.
Probably people that would do something similar, will never touch that code, for fear of be "tainted".
And anyway.. most code create new stuff that is worthy a patent. But not because most programmers are genius, but because the patent system is crap. No one sould care about what is on that code, because any professional can recreate the code anyway with the same features. There are not "sacred" code in this world. More the other stuff... Is really hard to make other people look at your code. The bussines type of guys dont want to look at your code. The users don't want to look at your code. Often, others programmers don't want to look at your code. Maybe is more valuable and interesting the features, and the documentation, the analysys of the problem, than the fucking source code. I do like to read source code, but I am one in a million (of programmers) and theres probably around 7 million programmers, so probably theres only another 7 dudes like me :-I
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Without the login codes to https://www.illuminati-hq.org/financialserver/tomorrows-stockprices.php
"The world's most valuable source code could be in the wild."
Duke Nukem Forever? Oh joy.
Based on what the markets have been up to, I'd say this code has been out there and has been actively exploited for at least 18 months.
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So the question, where are the 32MB of encrypted files that Sergey uploaded to a German server?
Rapidshare?
No, but you know the old saying. Give a man source code and he'll review for a day. Give a man the right passwords and he'll review source code until he gets locked away.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I think it's wonderful that the code has been reintroduced to the wild. Looks like their captive breeding program has been quite a success!
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Based on the Rolling Stones article I was able to reverse engineer the core Goldman Sachs trading algorithm:
#include
int main( int argc, const char* argv[] )
{
pump();
dump();
}
Had it been Vista, this guy would have been busted long back by, "You are trying to steal the valuable source code from your employer. Cancel or allow?" dialog.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Here is a copy of the code in it's entirety -
Buy Low
Sell High
"But this one goes to 11!"
Did you hear the latest?
They found the source code was just one file containing contained only the following lines
#include "federal_reserve.h"
int main ()
{
if (loss)
{
feds->bailout();
executives->pay_bonus();
}
else
{
stockholders->pay_dividend();
executives->pay_bonus();
}
}