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Analysis: Mercedes vs. Ben Hoyle – a new Spygate?

This week's revelation that Mercedes is taking legal action against an outgoing employee has reignited memories of the famous McLaren/Ferrari 'Spygate' scandal from 2007. But while the departing Mercedes power unit engineer at the centre of the latest 'spy' allegations may not be joining Ferrari after all, the ongoing legal case has put a sharp focus on the age old problem of how F1 teams and engine manufacturers protect their intellectual property. Everything changed, of course, with 'Spygate', which resulted in $100m fine for the British team. That investigation served to show just how much forensic computer experts could find out when they went trawling through a team's servers, and it...
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