It would be like something out of a spy novel — a computer secured in a windowless room in an undisclosed location, watched over by a security guard and surveillance camera, access subject to iris and handprint scans. Paperwork is numbered and contains radio-frequency identification tags, and is locked up in a safe overnight along with any notebooks and logs. All unused paper is shredded.
Such are the precautions Toyota Motor Corp. plans to impose on plaintiffs’ attorneys who will review the source code for the electronic throttle-control system at issue in multidistrict litigation over sudden unintended acceleration. U.S. District Judge James Selna has called the source code the company’s “crown jewels.”
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