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Elon Musk Emails Employees About 'Extensive and Damaging Sabotage' By Employee (cnbc.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the read-alert dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent an email to all employees on Monday morning about a factory fire, and seemed to reference possible sabotage. Now, CNBC has learned that Musk also sent an e-mail to all employees at Tesla late on Sunday night alleging that he has discovered a saboteur in the company's ranks. Musk said this person had conducted "quite extensive and damaging sabotage" to the company's operations, including by changing code to an internal product and exporting data to outsiders. In the email, Musk said "the investigation will continue in depth this week" to "figure out if [the saboteur] was acting alone or with others at Tesla and if he was working with any outside organizations [that want Tesla to disappear]." You can read the full email via CNBC's report.

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  1. Re:A common refrain from Musk by johanw · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > If you read the email, he's actually caught the guy and had a confession

    If you pay someone enough, some people will confess anything. I've seen a case where someone was paid $25,000 to admit he was a murderer, knowing that they had to release him anyway after a few weeks due to lack of evidence (and unlike the US such a stunt won't get you any real trouble here) but giving the real murderer more time to escape.

  2. Re:A common refrain from Musk by DrXym · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    I don't want a brand new car that needs to be repaired because it wasn't adequately QCd in the first place. If QC turned a blind eye to faults customers can discover what faults are still there that they can't see - issues with wiring, software, structural joins and so on?

    And all car manufacturers offer a vehicle warranty. I'm sure Tesla's repair service is nice and all but what would be even nicer is not having to use it. And that assumes they can even rectify faults or will do so unless a danger exists that requires a recall.

    And no, I don't think any of this has to do with why people preordered. I think the main reason was hype, the media band wagon and a failure to think things through.