In civil litigation they don't use the terms guilty or not guilty, rather liable or not liable. A jury finds for the Plaintiff or for the Defendants. Also the standard of proof in civil litigation is "by a preponderance of the evidence" instead of "beyond a reasonable doubt" which is the criminal standard.
I should add, i'm definitely no expert on any of this, just armchair ebacking..
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I wonder how the talks went behind doors before this went public. It seems a cut and dry case of libel so the settlement proposed must be fairly large or NV would have chosen that path to try and avoid the exposure.
...these guys are very f**ked
Is their security really that lax, are they really this incompetent when it comes to keeping tabs on file accesses where sensitive and confidential information is involved?
It took AMD 6 months to catch on to the fact that their files were compromised by employees they knew had left to go work for one of their primary competitors
Or did they intentionally wait it out in hopes of giving Nvidia a chance of ending up with the files on their servers somewhere so that they could then claim even bigger damages than they would otherwise have been able to claim had they stopped these dudes at the door on their way out of the AMD office with the external drives in tow?
Taking a page out of Rambus legal tactics?
The guys who did this to AMD are sleazy, no question there, but AMD is either incompetent and ripe for this kind of fraud or they themselves are playing the legal sleazy tactic of baiting the trap and leaving it out there to see what they can catch (and profit from once the trap is sprung).
If such an egregious example as this is really went on for months and months, spanning multiple employees, before it was caught out then there can be no doubt this is the tip of the iceberg in terms of the volumes of sensitive information that must have walked out of AMD's doors in the past year with all the layoffs and demoralized zombie employees who have been looking for jobs elsewhere.
This is an awful lot of speculation, especially the bolded part. There is no doubt "volumes" of sensitive info walked out the door? No doubt? Really?It took AMD 6 months to catch on to the fact that their files were compromised by employees they knew had left to go work for one of their primary competitors
Or did they intentionally wait it out in hopes of giving Nvidia a chance of ending up with the files on their servers somewhere so that they could then claim even bigger damages than they would otherwise have been able to claim had they stopped these dudes at the door on their way out of the AMD office with the external drives in tow?
Taking a page out of Rambus legal tactics?
The guys who did this to AMD are sleazy, no question there, but AMD is either incompetent and ripe for this kind of fraud or they themselves are playing the legal sleazy tactic of baiting the trap and leaving it out there to see what they can catch (and profit from once the trap is sprung).
If such an egregious example as this is really went on for months and months, spanning multiple employees, before it was caught out then there can be no doubt this is the tip of the iceberg in terms of the volumes of sensitive information that must have walked out of AMD's doors in the past year with all the layoffs and demoralized zombie employees who have been looking for jobs elsewhere.
This is an awful lot of speculation, especially the bolded part. There is no doubt "volumes" of sensitive info walked out the door? No doubt? Really?
And let's not even begin to make the suggestion that because AMD was supposedly incompetent in protecting their data (more speculation
), that what was done is somehow diminished. edit - I have to say that the comparison to Rambus is an especially low blow, AMD is hardly known as being a patent troll or taking companies to court for no reason. Disappointing post honestly.
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