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by jstevens85 4867 days ago
> who had both the chance and the opportunity to use the access to leak stuff that could have been quite damaging to the company - yet didn't

According to the article, he'd leaked "troves" of development documents to the writer of the article. It appears he may be the source, or one of the sources, behind the unprecedented amount of detail that has been leaked ahead of the console announcements.

From the article:

> Dylan wanted to know about next-gen systems, and somehow he learned plenty. He got development documentation for the next PlayStation and Xbox. Long before I'd sized him up as a hacker, he'd sent me troves of PDFs and white papers describing the functionality of both the code-named Orbis and Durango. The documentation was loaded with programming code—and with details.