Billionaire Elon Musk has a very special way to detect employees at his companies leaking internal information to competitors or the media.
Internal information, technological secrets… are always important information that companies want to keep hidden, especially with large technology companies. However, in reality, internal information of companies or information related to upcoming products is constantly leaked on the internet.
Big companies, especially technology companies, always have special ways to hide internal information, technology secrets as well as upcoming products.
Elon Musk is confident in his solution to help detect subordinates smuggling internal information to the outside (Photo: Imagemur).
Elon Musk, the billionaire who heads many large companies such as Tesla, SpaceX, social networkΒ X, Boring Company… also has a special way to detect which employees reveal the company’s internal information.
Notably, Elon Musk did not hesitate to share about the method he is using to “catch” employees who are secretly smuggling company secrets out.
“We sent emails that appeared the same to everyone, but in reality each email had a difference of one or two spaces between sentences, creating a form of binary code to identify the perpetrator.” information leak,” Elon Musk shared on page X (formerly Twitter) with more than 165.6 million followers.
The method that Elon Musk applies to detect employees leaking information is called the “canary trap”. This method is performed by creating many different versions of a sensitive document and sending these documents to suspicious subjects, thereby detecting which documents are leaked to the outside. .
However, Elon Musk has improved this method more sophisticatedly by creating white characters or spaces between sentences in internal documents, creating a form of hidden binary code, making it difficult for employees to recognize the difference when smuggling this information out.
When discovering internal documents leaked to the outside, Elon Musk can decode the binary code inside the document to recognize which employee smuggled the document out.
Elon Musk said that employees who leak or sell internal company information to the outside will have to quit, and Musk himself is too busy to take legal action against these employees.
Elon Musk did not hesitate to publicly reveal the secret that helps detect employees who are not loyal to him. This is considered a clear message that Elon Musk sends to his employees: leaking sensitive, internal information is not easy and it’s better not to let Elon Musk “catch” it. .
In addition to Elon Musk, many large technology companies also use “canary traps” to find those who leak internal information or confidential product information.
Previously, Apple also used similar measures to “trap” employees who intentionally leaked company information.
Specifically, Apple will provide different information separately to each person participating in its projects, much of which is fake and inaccurate.
If one of those fake and misleading information is leaked and posted on social networks, Apple will target suspicious individuals within the company and continue to provide these people with additional new information. Exactly. If new information continues to be leaked and posted online, Apple may know which employee leaked the information.
When it finds someone who leaked internal information, Apple often takes strong measures to deal with it, including firing employees and even threatening imprisonment.
