[mingyeow]

I am actually sincerely curious - is this considered a felony if proven? Seems like a major offense to steal such a massive amount of information blatantly for self enrichment, even if done under the missive of "changing the world"

This cannot end well.

[isubkhankulov]

The suit is a civil tort, seeking damages. A felony is a criminal charge, usually against a person. I'm sure Google can call the CA District attorney and/or the western US district attorney to make a criminal complaint, State and Federal, respectively. I'm not an expert on the actual criminal charges available on each level but probably something about trade secrets if we're talking federal charges.

[tracker1]

    git clone REPO_NAME

It really depends on the specifics of the case... the above could easily download 14K documents (necessary for doing work by said employee) a full 6 weeks before leaving the company.

[coolgeek]

Some info about criminal penalties under UTSA and DTSA here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_secret#United_States

I think that DTSA may not hold here because it wasn't signed until the events occurred.

I went looking into this after a comment from Animats in yesterday's thread struck me as odd

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13719070