New job? Could you be arrested for taking your know-how with you?

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Developers in the US have been arrested at their exit interviews, accused of wanting to take know-how from one company to the another. Could it happen here?

Nothing suggests that an "exit interview" has gone badly wrong than when the departing employee leaves in handcuffs, but that's what happened to Kang Gao when he was about to leave Two Sigma Invest...

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