After pleading guilty, former Microsoft employee Alex Kibkalo will pay a $100 fine and serve three months in prison for stealing trade secrets.His case picked up wide notice not due to the nature of the crime — trade leaks happen every day — but instead in terms of how he was caught. Kibkalo leaked code to a French blogger, and Microsoft took a look into that account for evidence regarding the source of the leak.
The company was within its legal rights to do so, given that it has the right to examine data on its own servers. However, when it became known that the company had done so to pursue its legal ends, and had peeked through the missives of someone involved with publishing — no matter how loosely you define the niche — there was blowback.
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