INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE CASE 1: Intel
March 11, 2003 11:09am
The extent of industrial espionage in Europe and the US has been exposed
through court cases affecting household names. While some incidents can be
put down to the work of opportunists, others allege the involvement of
long-term, high-level planning by their perpetrators.
In December 2001 a former Intel Corp engineer was sentenced to two years in
prison after admitting to stealing trade secrets about the company's
high-speed Itanium processor.
Say Lye Ow, 31, of Sunnyvale, California copied sensitive files concerning
the chip's design before leaving the chip-making giant in 1998 to take up a
job with rival company Sun Microsystems.
Some of the information was later found on the network of his new employer.
Ow had planned to use information about the chip's design and testing as a
resource at his new job and to retaliate against a former supervisor.
Julia Pierce
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