Lag. We all know it, and we've all felt the frustration that it wreaks, whether you're caught in a crunchy video call or watching a pal haplessly teleport around the map in Arc Raiders. However, it's now being used as an unlikely piece of evidence in another bizarre tale of alleged corporate espionage.
Amazon began to suspect something was amiss when it looked at the keystroke data from a new IT hire. To the company's knowledge, the employee was US-based so there should have been a comfortably less than 100 millisecond delay between them typing commands on their corporate laptop, and those inputs reaching the head office in Seattle. However, the delay was in fact 110 milliseconds, suggesting the employee was based further afield than first thought.
