Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. A spyware company allegedly targeted a former employee with spyware because they suspected him of leaking sensitive information to competitors.
Gibson told TechCrunch he later heard from former colleagues that Trenchant suspected he had leaked some unknown vulnerabilities in Google’s Chrome browser, tools that Trenchant had developed. Gibson, and three former colleagues of his, however, told TechCrunch he did not have access to Trenchant’s Chrome zero-days, given that he was part of the team exclusively developing iOS zero-days and spyware. Trenchant teams only have strictly compartmentalized access to tools related to the platforms they are working on, the people said.
“I know I was a scapegoat. I wasn’t guilty. It’s very simple,” said Gibson. “I didn’t do absolutely anything other than working my ass off for them.”
Speaking of karma, I find it funny that a SPYWARE company decides to engage in corporate surveillance. Or more accurately, afraid of corporate surveillance.
Please correct me if I am misunderstanding this but if I extrapolate the logic of your statement, is it not the same as “if you have not done or do anything wrong, you should have nothing to hide”? A statement of sorts folks who attack or devalue privacy believe and always reiterate. I know this can’t be you so I ask because I’m confused.
Or did you mean to say or imply something along the following lines instead: No one is more legitimately paranoid than the guilty?
I sometimes detest my own pedantic mind but such is my burden of over analyzing things.
