Hardware

Valeo conducted a forensic audit of its computer systems and found that in April 2021, Moniruzzaman copied “the entirety of Valeo’s parking and driving assistance source code from his Valeo computer to a personal computer,” the lawsuit claimed.

Included were tens of thousands of files, large amounts of proprietary code, and “scores of Valeo Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, PDF files, and Excel spreadsheets explaining various aspects of the technology to further facilitate his understanding of the stolen code,” the lawsuit alleged.

How fucking stupid do you have to be to not only steal all of that, but then accidentally screen share the folder of the files you stole with the people you stole the files from?

So this is what that French raid must have been a few weeks ago.

Nvidia has had much more functional autonomous driving software/hardware since ~2015, and built Tesla's early self driving / parking assist. This ex-Valeo employee was hired by Nvidia in 2021 when Nvidia's DRIVE was already powering/developing Mercedes/others autonomous driving packages. Yes, Nvidia DRIVE uses ultrasonics as part of its sensor data (like Valeo park assist uses), but that's been present in DRIVE (and other competing solutions) long before this guy was hired. Since Nvidia is mostly focused on optical processing now, I'd be surprised if they cared about anything the ex-Valeo guy might have stolen.

This sounds to me like an idiot (the ex Valeo employee) trying to make himself valuable to his new employer (Nvidia) via shortcuts, getting caught by his previous employer, and Valeo hoping to get a pretty settlement from Nvidia for some easy revenue.

Whaa, Nvidia profiting from unethical business practices? I'm shocked, amazed, and downright dumbfounded, I tell you!

Price of cards to climb to settle lawsuit

This just smells like an excuse or even a "setup" to sue Nvidia. Would Nvidia really need to care about their parking software? This seems like small fries, and something out of the scope of Nvidia's interests. Someone just looking to get a piece of the pie.

Man I was really hoping it was stolen from AMD and was graphics related AMD stuff.

No it’s like the movie contact’s ending. Expecting something big and it’s just lame ass parking assist features.

Not only is using others' code now in vogue (I took a class maybe 5 years ago and they basically said scan the web and find code to copy, when I asked then how are we learning I was told that's how it's done. I quit and taught myself). Stealing IP is the Silicon Valley way. Many companies started by stealing IP but no one knew or those who did know, were complicit so stayed silent. It's really unethical, illegal and they should pay a price for it. Even years or decades later. This case is boldface theft as are most.

The almost perfect crime fumbled by a bone headed mistake. I love it. You can't make this shit up.

Hope he enjoys what comes next. Bubba won't be so gentle.