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TIL that after a series of leaks at Tesla in 2008, Musk tried to setup a Canary Trap with slightly different versions of an email under top secrecy. But the company's clueless general counsel sent his own version of the e-mail. Thus, scheme was realized by employees who then had a safe copy to leak.

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