Former Microsoft employee pleads guilty of leaking Win8 trade secrets

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Alex Kibkalo plead guilty to theft of trade secrets on Monday for leaking Windows 8 code prior to it's official launch. Alex, a former Microsoft employee, was sentenced to three months in federal prison and a fine of $22,500 to be paid to Microsoft. He worked as a software architect for seven years at Microsoft prior to departing the company in 2012, he left to pursue a job at 5nine Software afterwards. This story brought to light a issue where Microsoft would troll user content within the Live email service for copyright infringement, they have recently came out and abolished the practice in the future.

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EventPosted:

Wow, news like this is very shocking.

jerkymitePosted:

most of u r kids and will never understand when the 99% speaks out about government trolling issues on privacy and our gun rights for all u gamers that think they don't spy on u try changing ur cloths with ur xbox on while the Kinect is going and see how fast u get banned the reason why he showed u this was they listen to ur parties read all ur emails and text messages on ur xbox they know everything about u so don't think ur special and Microsoft cares about u cause they don't bill gates said it himself that 99% of the population needs to die don't believe look it up on youtube

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PinkieShy
-CP >fine of $22,500

That seems extremely low for what he did.


Big note here.

" Microsoft would troll user content within the Live email service for copyright infringement"

He showed everyone how Microsoft was screening all of our emails which is against our right to privacy.


It is not against any implied rights to privacy we may have because by signing up for their email service we agree to them inspecting us whenever they feel like it.

MissPosted:

GT-R
xxMTNdewlxx
Unsinned I bet this guy regrets this big time, 3 months and $22,500 unlucky.


No he is lucky for what he received that fine could have been much larger not to mention if Microsoft wanted they could lock him up for life they have the money to make him "disappear" not to mention they could have sued him for all he is worth that is why you do not **** with large companies


I'm assuming you're not aware of federal laws in the U.S. and making him "disappear" yeah they could do that if they want to pay the consequences for it. They aren't excluded from the laws just because microsoft is a billion dollar company.


Have you read tha ToS and are sure about that? Just because it's theirs doesn't mean they can read any of them.

Sucks for this guy though, 22K down the drain, lol. He probably made that much in a month. That's chump change for him.

GossipPosted:

So he got mad left and leaked they're content. He had it coming.

maascourt13Posted:

PinkieShy
-CP >fine of $22,500

That seems extremely low for what he did.


Big note here.

" Microsoft would troll user content within the Live email service for copyright infringement"

He showed everyone how Microsoft was screening all of our emails which is against our right to privacy.



It isn't against right of privacy, If you want to use their email, you have to accept the terms of service, and there you can read, that the emails you send are actually Their emails. Sorry for bad English.

GT-RPosted:

xxMTNdewlxx
Unsinned I bet this guy regrets this big time, 3 months and $22,500 unlucky.


No he is lucky for what he received that fine could have been much larger not to mention if Microsoft wanted they could lock him up for life they have the money to make him "disappear" not to mention they could have sued him for all he is worth that is why you do not **** with large companies


I'm assuming you're not aware of federal laws in the U.S. and making him "disappear" yeah they could do that if they want to pay the consequences for it. They aren't excluded from the laws just because microsoft is a billion dollar company.

KatsumiChanPosted:

-CP >fine of $22,500

That seems extremely low for what he did.


Big note here.

" Microsoft would troll user content within the Live email service for copyright infringement"

He showed everyone how Microsoft was screening all of our emails which is against our right to privacy.

Baz_AccentsPosted:

-CP >fine of $22,500

That seems extremely low for what he did.


and 3 months in federal prison i would of give him 15 months

-CPPosted:

>fine of $22,500

That seems extremely low for what he did.