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I concede it's possible that saboteurs are operating within Tesla, but lashing out at invisible enemies sends a strong "crazy" signal. Elon has been sending a lot of crazy signals lately...

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Well the email said that the guy admitted to it, and did it because he was denied a promotion.

Not so invisible.

The boogyman isn't the sabeteur, it's the mysterious cabal of oil barons and short sellers that put him up to it.

I think the boogeyman is whoever the guy was exporting data too, since they found data exportation features. Because why have data exportation unless you are doing it too somewhere.

The problem with this is that absent any other information he could have been sending data to literally anyone, including his mother's raspberry pi, the New York Times, a foreign government, a competitor, a nefarious trader, an FTP server he set up the day before, or anywhere else in the world. Jumping to conclusions is indicative of having already made your mind up, which itself could indicate some paranoia.

I read "exporting data" as "took home a sql dump and now plans to sell email and related data on the darknet". Standard small blackhat stuff, not industrial espionage, but I doubt tesla will publicly say what happened in this case

This was a major plot arc in the show Billions - a hedge fund that was short a company (Ice Juice) so they paid some shady characters who sabotaged it to ensure that the hedge fund won their bed.

The idea was that if you needed things done and you had enough money there was a surplus of characters in NYC who could get those things done.

(This season a Russian oligarch character proposes murder in order to ensure his returns.)

I am unsure if they were referencing reality in the Ice Juice sabotage scenario in that or just dreaming up absurd scenarios for entertainment value.

Is there any confirmation of the admission besides Elon just saying it?

Maybe he'll get back to his South African roots, go full zef, and start dressing/acting like Die Antwoord.

> "NEXT!! NEXT QUESTION!! This question is boring. No more boring questions. No more questions based on facts or analysis of Tesla. Please focus all questions on space travel, the mars colony, big data, SpaceX, with leading questions to imply a merger with SpaceX. If you dont have futuristic questions that defer reality, at least ask questions that let me assure you that I took physics in college and can now ignore basic battery physics in my press releases and stock promotion scam. Now someone pass the cocaine so I can make it through this call. Where’s that kid from YouTube with the fun questions??"

[ insert "everything is fine" meme ]

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