joa...@swbell.net (John McKown) writes: > Man, I will never get anywhere near that salary. Complaint was that he > downloaded the source to a software system which did their trades. I > guess to sell it to other companies. Or maybe to examine to see if any > flaws could be exploited. The article doesn't say. The source code to > which I have access wouldn't be worth the cost of transmitting it. > Unless there is a big market for old COBOL code to be used as an example > of how to __NOT__ code in COBOL. <grin>
there were periodic past references that his job may have been to develop the software ... used in high-speed trading ... wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov wiki references articals from july2009 http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jul/06/golman-sachs-computer-codes-stolen http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aFeyqdzYcizc http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a2GvteRoihQE above references that typically there is very little information about trading activities. for other topic drift ... recent thread about efforts to try and obtain trading information (possibly in conjunction with showing illegal naked short sales): http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#43 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#48 above is part of thread about possible future wikileaks involving large financial institutions. to somewhat bring it back to mainframe ... this discussion about past leakage issues involving corporate mainframe (unannounced products) information (in linkedin ibm alumni group discussion) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#4 Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#8 Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#18 Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside and another corporate mainframe trade-secret theft discussion (in linkedin financial crime risk, fraud and security group) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.htmL#25 Econimic espionage discussed -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
