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?

Comments

Colour me surprised

[Antidamage]

Pure evil partnered with Linux?

I'm pretty sure that can't happen. I'm going to pray to Linus for guidance.

Re:Colour me surprised

[neomunk]

Linux isn't GOOD by nature. It's not BAD either.

It's like The Force, you see. All around us, binding our processes behind the scenes in ways it takes an enlightened eye to perceive. There is always Linux prodding along the information swirls and eddies that make up our modern lives, unconcerned with the nature or usage of said information.

Windows is like The Force too, except I've never heard a Windows acolyte preach any path other than the quicker, easier, more seductive one...

From the summary:

[Anonymous Coward]

"The world's most valuable source code could be in the wild."

Duke Nukem Forever? Oh joy.

Re:Surely not?

[192939495969798999]

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.