Stardate 20010725.2103 (On Screen): White collar crime at its finest! There's a company called Cadence which designs circuits which are licensed to other companies who incorporate them into application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). Cadence had a wholesale defection by a number of employees who formed their own company called Avanti, selling things which were suspiciously similar to what they had been working on at Cadence. There was both a civil suit and a criminal investigation, and today it largely came to a close. Several of the top officers of Avanti are actually really genuinely
going to go to jail for theft of trade secrets. One of them will spend two years in San Quentin, which is no picnic.
The judge recommended that the prison use him to work on computer problems there. I think they'd have to be nuts to let a convicted felon anywhere near their computers, especially considering his skill level. A better use of his abilities might be to hold classes in the prison about computers for other prisoners. But there's no telling what he might do if let near computers which contained anything critical. He's in there because he isn't trustworthy. (discuss)
