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Wall Street Traders Charged With Copying Code To Start Their Own Company

Posted by Unknown on from the awesome-business-plans dept.

coondoggie writes "Talk about starting a business on shaky ground. The Manhattan District Attorney's office says former Wall Street traders stole electronic trading source code and data from their then trading firm in an effort to start up their own financial business." Sending yourself pilfered code through your company email account is probably not the wisest plan.

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  1. Guilty before proven innocent? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    A new low from the owners of Slashdot. It is incredibly common practice for the former "owners" of wage slaves to use their political clout to have said former wage slaves charged with various crimes, when they leave their "master" and set up a competing enterprise. Are the accusations ever warranted? On far fewer occasions than you may imagine, but even when the accusations are proven FALSE and MALICIOUS, the damage is done, the target is destroyed, and the company responsible for bringing the phoney lawsuit never faces punishment or sanction.

    So why is Slashdot pushing this "presumed guilty" crap. Could it be something to do with the surnames of the accused?