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Ex-Microsoft Employee Arrested For Leaking Windows 8
SmartAboutThings (1951032) writes "Alex Kibkalo, a former Microsoft employee has been arrested yesterday for stealing and leaking company secrets. The former software architecture engineer is accused of leaking early Windows 8 builds to a French tech blogger with whom he was communicating inside a forum. The ex-Microsoft employee also stands accused of leaking some Windows 7 program files and also an internal system meant to protect against software piracy. Kibkalo is said to have leaked the Windows 8 code in the middle of 2012 because he was angry over a poor performance review."
Yeah, blah, blah, corporations are evil and holding down the poor hard working honest guy.
The following is my opinion.
Greed is when you place making money above all else and don't care about the harm you do to others to achieve that. Problem is, publically traded corporations have a legal obligation to increase profits every legal way possible.
That's why publically traded food companies get to pick from over 15,000 chemicals they can add to food that DOES NOT need to be listed on the label. These chemicals are often addictive, increase appetite, and have a lot to do with all the fatasses in the USA. Fat people eat more food and buy more food. Note that most of Europe doesn't allow these additives. But that's okay, because regulatory capture means the FDA allows whatever the corporations want, and that increases profits! Oh and there's the revolving door between employment at these corporations and cushy positions at the FDA. It's corrupt to the fucking core man.
Oh did you know most "diet food" will make you GAIN weight? Research it yourself. What did you expect when profits matter more than anything else?
I don't know if all corporations are evil. I do know that when corporations control things that are far too important, evil always seems to happen. Maybe it is like government. Not inherently evil, but evil people really just love positions of power. Power and control and money are about the only things sociopaths get off on.