Linwei Ding - Google's Insider Threat

About this episode

Linwei Ding, a former Google engineer, discusses his actions of stealing confidential technical secrets to start a new venture.

Linwei Ding was a software engineer at Google, assigned to the team building the AI infrastructure that the entire industry was racing to replicate. He had access to confidential material most engineers only read about. And for a year and a half, he used it to quietly copy over 2,000 pages of Google's most closely guarded technical secrets, file by file, right under their noses. He had a startup in Shanghai waiting for him, investors lined up in Beijing, and a one-way ticket out of the country. Become a member : dontgetgot.co

People in this episode

Guest: Linwei Ding

Topics covered

• insider threat
• AI infrastructure
• corporate espionage
• software engineering
• startup culture

Keywords

• Google
• insider threat
• AI
• technical secrets
• startup
• software engineer
• corporate espionage

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google

Places: Shanghai, Beijing

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