Boeing Employee Fired for Discussing Computer Security

Posted on October 1, 2007
Filed Under Security News |

Boeing has fired an employee for speaking to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer - the newspaper published a story in July saying that Boeing couldn’t properly protect data in its computer systems from theft, manipulation and fraud.

The former employee claims the company is retaliating against him, instead of trying to fix its problems. An anonymous e-mail sent to the Seattle P-I also disclosed that Boeing is spying on other employees to ferret out whistleblowers by videotaping workers and reading their e-mail

Earlier this year, another Boeing whistleblower was charged with 16 counts of computer tresspass for allegedly stealing 320,000 company files and giving some of them to the Seattle Times to document flaws in the company’s inspection process for one of its new planes. Police say they discovered password-cracking tools on the employee’s computer. The company estimated that the stolen data could have cost the company between $5 billion and $15 billion if the information got into the wrong hands.

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