{"id":48459,"date":"2022-09-15T15:15:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T15:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ex-broadcom-engineer-asks-for-house-arrest-over-ip-theft\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T15:15:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T15:15:11","slug":"ex-broadcom-engineer-asks-for-house-arrest-over-ip-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ex-broadcom-engineer-asks-for-house-arrest-over-ip-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Broadcom engineer asks for house arrest over IP theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Broadcom engineer who pleaded guilty to stealing his ex-employer&#8217;s trade secrets has asked the court not to give him prison time, saying he stole the files for reference, fearing he would &#8220;be unable to keep up&#8221; with &#8220;more technical and younger engineers&#8221; at a new startup.<\/p>\n<p>According to the filing, Peter Kisang Kim worked for Broadcom for 22 years before he accepted a job in 2020 at a Chinese networking chip design startup called Mersenne Technologies, where his role was design verification director.<\/p>\n<p>Kim, who initially pleaded not guilty when he was indicted in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndca\/pr\/former-broadcom-engineer-charged-theft-trade-secrets\">November last year<\/a>, changed his plea in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/60861037\/4\/united-states-v-kim\/\">May<\/a> this year, accepting a deal acknowledging he had copied Broadcom trade secrets in the form of files related to design specs for networking chips used in datacenters.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"condor\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/cybercrime&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2YyNO77GFCYS4GDNz9qDnYAAAAJQ&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/cybercrime&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2YyNO77GFCYS4GDNz9qDnYAAAAJQ&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>The memo [<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2022\/09\/15\/broadcom.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a>], submitted by Kim&#8217;s lawyers to the California district court on September 13, asks for a sentence of six months of home confinement, 100 hours of community service, and three years of probation, which they said should take into consideration that he &#8220;never implemented any of the information contained in the files in his work at Mersenne.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xmd=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-lg=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xxlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,brandwidth,brandimpact,leaderboard,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/cybercrime&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YyNO77GFCYS4GDNz9qDnYAAAAJQ&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" 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Typically, the files proved unhelpful because there was just too much data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kim&#8217;s team also added that the files, which he took &#8220;as a crutch if and when he needed one,&#8221; would not have been practically useful because Broadcom appears to have used customized Perl scripts for its datacenter ASIC designs, where Mersenne&#8217;s devs used Python. &#8220;He referenced the files to refresh his memory as to certain procedures, terminology and to remind himself of how things were done at Broadcom, but he never used that data to &#8216;develop&#8217; products.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/cybercrime&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YyNO77GFCYS4GDNz9qDnYAAAAJQ&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/cybercrime&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YyNO77GFCYS4GDNz9qDnYAAAAJQ&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>His lawyers went on to say that it was an &#8220;exaggeration&#8221; to say &#8220;Kim singlehandedly threatened the &#8216;national security of the United States&#8217;,&#8221; as Broadcom had earlier claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The government argued in its own memo [<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2022\/09\/15\/usa_memo_re_kim.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a>], submitted on the same day, that the court should impose a sentence of 15 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, a $5,000 fine, and restitution. It argued that even though he took the &#8220;Broadcom trade secrets for reference purposes, Kim knew that having them could advance the quality of his work as an employee for Company-1 and therefore economically benefit the company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It said that Kim had worked on various Broadcom products during his time at the company, including the Trident family of networking integrated circuit chips (such as the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2019\/01\/28\/network_roundup\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Trident 3<\/a> and the Trident 4), frequently used in high-volume datacenters.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining that he &#8220;was not well-versed in design architecture or feature details,&#8221; Kim&#8217;s memo said he had been &#8220;cautiously insecure stepping into a position where he would be in charge of the entire verification team&#8221; having &#8220;spent 20 years at Broadcom doing the same thing over and over again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The memo said the act was not for personal financial gain, and wasn&#8217;t revenge on Broadcom, to which he apologized for breaking trust after &#8220;decades of honest work,&#8221; saying his career in the semiconductor industry was over and that he suffers from depression.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was, quite simply, foolish, and for no reason other than fear: fear of forgetfulness, fear of inadequacy, and fear of failure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" id=\"story_eagle_xsm_sm_md_xmd_lg_xlg\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xsm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-sm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-md=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xmd=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-lg=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/cybercrime&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YyNO77GFCYS4GDNz9qDnYAAAAJQ&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" 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