Babbling spy says that men have followed him, and his wife is scared | Techcrunch

If a spy becomes as an exciting way to live as a Le Carré character, this newest sworn explanation of well -known babbling spy Keith O’Brien leaves as a warning.

On Friday, an Irish judge O’Brien granted a street ban against various men who have not yet been identified, according to the judicial order that was seen by Techcrunch. O’Brien testified that several men-two in a gray Skoda repellent on one occasion, and more often a short-haired, heavy man in a black SUV, sometimes accompanied by a large dog recovered his car and looked at his house.

The story of O’Brien has conquered the imagination of the technical industry after his colorful confession in April, in which he claimed that he was a spy for part. He said he received € 5,000 a month to steal the internal details of Rippel about everything from products to customers. Rippel caught him by setting up a Honeypot Slack channel. On the day he was caught, O’Brien pretended to wash his phone through the business toilet and later hit pieces in the drain to the house of his mother -in -law, according to his statement.

Now he is the star witness for babbling in his lawsuit against part. Rippel is even the collection of the tab for its legal and related costs, the lawyers testified. Parts also exist in Kabbelen and claims that it is also spied on, by a wavy employee who presents himself as a customer. The two HR technology companies are bitter rivals for years after part – once a rippling customer – started to offer competitive products.

In the last part of the Saga, O’Brien testified that he tried to lose the black SUV after his car by making sudden turns and taking a roundabout ways to get home, only to see the weather in his rearview mirror appear. He hired a security advisory company and feared that someone placed tracking devices on his car.

O’Brien claims that all these incidents have created ’emotional and psychological’ damage for himself and his wife. “We experienced fear at home and in public. It has influenced our sleep and our concentration,” O’Brien said in his latest explanation. They are anxious about the safety of their four children.

He and his lawyer speculated that this was intended as intimidation with regard to his role as Star Witness. However, O’Brien’s lawyer also admitted in court that they had no evidence that the men are binding to part. Share also denied something about the man in the black SUV.

According to The Irish publication company postWhen granting the order, the judge apparently said: “as if they were in a TV show in the 70s”.

Whatever happens in the duulating lawsuits, O’Brien has made himself the rope in a bitter tugboat between these two well-financed HR startups. And what he says in his testimony, it sounds painful.