[_audakel]

i can't believe someone as smart as he is would just blatantly stick in a usb. With how much money he was going to make he could have researched some more annomous ways to get it. Not the least would be to intercept a team members auth/pw and use that to access the data.

[alphonsegaston]

It fits the pattern of most crimes. A whole lot of money and the chance to get it quick tends to drop most people's IQs down an order of magnitude.

[londons_explore]

He had a Windows laptop according to the filing.

Engineers rarely use windows. He was also a manager at Google. Very techy folk don't take on manager responsibilities because it quickly saps time.

Both those things tell me he was more of a people person than a technical person.

[danans]

A lot of engineers use Windows, especially in circuit design since a lot of the design tools are only on Windows.

And as a Googler, I can comfortably state that most engineering managers are very technical. I know because I've worked under many of them.

[kirrent]

Not to mention that he had to look up how to use SVN.