Aleynikov's Code Dump Uncovered

Sergey Aleynikov's code dump page has been uncovered, courtesy of the Sergey Aleynikov Fan Club on Facebook. The site can be found here. Intrepid hackers, nascent program traders, Goldman (GS) lawyers and DHS lackeys should be all over this. As Zero Hedge will be out of pocket for the next few hours, it might make sense for a reader to create a mirror of the content as I have a sinking suspicion this Google page will be taken down faster than Tila Tequila's modesty.The Google Code linked wiki page is already responding with a 502 Server Error and it is odd that this page has not also been removed.

Among the projects on the Code site include:

The Erlang Plus Interface library (EPI) is a tool set of C++ classes to easily build applications in C++ what comunicates with Erlang. The intention of the library is to cover the holes that EI library offers:

• An object oriented implementation
• A simple API
• Extensibility
• Abstraction of comunication mechanism
• Simplified management of incoming messages (mailboxes)

Which Sergey was allegedly putting together in conjunction with user "Keymon."

There is also a sole sourced, undescribed project called Svnarchive, which links to a dead-end command line access viewer.

The biggest project is Erlocaml, described as a tight bridge between Erlang and OCaml. Listed project owners in addition to Sergey are Ulf.Wiger, Cyril.romain, Joelr1, and Chris.romain.

I hope some of our enterprising readers take the time to make some sense of all this code in my immediate absence. While the probability of a smoking gun contained here is marginal at best, stranger things have happened.

Comments

[TradingHelp...:]

You, Sir, have a brain the size of Texas and contacts the FBI would die for.

I wonder what event occured in your interesting life to give you such determination to change the flawed and corrupt status quo.

Good luck.

Jul 12 07:58 AM

[Gyoza Mimi:]

Outstanding job, Tyler!

Jul 12 09:29 AM

[Gnothead:]

Just good reading when I visit this site.
Thanks

Jul 12 09:55 AM

[KirbyJF1:]

Better be carefull Tyler, Alan Ableson is even writting about you. Tim G & Henry P are not happy with you as well as Lloyd.


Kirby

Jul 12 10:07 AM

[Davewmart:]

Outstanding as always, Tyler.
BTW, I see you are also a fan of EV cars - good seeing you on those sites!

Jul 12 10:26 AM

[John McLeod:]

Shai Dorsai!

Jul 12 11:14 AM

[Cashdollar:]

I don't see anything proprietary in this code (or his Perl contributions that were posted earlier).

code.google.com/u/sale...

He hasn't made any updates since April 14th.

Jul 12 01:08 PM

[igggy:]

Sorry the code on the site looks like a decoy to me (it is open-source - it's possible they made some changes to it but it's not their algo code). Perhaps the guy is honest. Though, he shouldn't have copied the code anyway - it belongs to the employer (GS).

Jul 13 12:19 AM

[JPPennypacker:]

According to a recent article, Mr. Aleynikov's lawyer believes his client is innocent of any wrongdoing. It will be interesting to see what sorts of details emerge from the legal proceedings. I wonder how Lloyd thinks all this will play out?


www.reuters.com/articl...

Jul 13 12:47 AM

[John Galt:]

That's hillarious, Sergy has a fan club on facebook for robbing GS.

Jul 13 08:47 AM

[dcb:]

Hey, I can't get access to zero hedge tonight. anybody know something?

Jul 13 07:19 PM

[MarkitWacha:]

I would be surprised if this is the actual code that GS is using. From my perspective as a software architect, it's not enterprise quality, even as a 3rd party library. It's just not coherent, has little error handling, and doesn't make sense to use this, at least not on an Intel/x86 box. It's not optimal, as it causes too many switches to kernel mode (ring 3).

This tech was discarded years ago for something faster. In Windows, it's I/O completion ports. In Unix, you compile inside the kernel.

Bizarre. If this is all he copied, big deal.

Jul 13 11:24 PM

[pessimizer:]

None of this has anything to do with GS, it has to do with programming. These are all respected projects that he was involved with within the Erlang open source community. Everybody who knows of Aleynikov from that angle rather than press hystrionics realizes this. I could tell you what this code does, but it would bore you to tears.

Jul 20 10:27 AM