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Title: Observations of the corporate espionage of IBM's Tivoli Management Framework 2001+ version by a co-worker

Author: Charles Malone

Originally Authored on: Sep 10 2023
Modified on: Dec 23 2025

Summary: Observations of the corporate espionage of IBM's Tivoli Management Framework(TMF) 2001+ version by a co-worker.



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Some of the things I witnessed but didn't understand at the time were that original software install discs(DB2, and other support software) were replaced with poorly handwritten titles on duplicate discs. This co-worker also said he had a rich "Uncle" working at the Chinese embassy in San Antonio(actually located in the Mexican Consulate if I remember right) and that the Uncle had paid him as a "gift". Many years later I heard in the news that an account backdoor had been discovered in the TMF, and then all the incidents I experienced fell into place. The Asian co-worker in my team had sold the original install discs and a copy of the TMF software source code to the Chinese embassy...

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