Nope... this was the guy who Wayne hired to dig into the asian "mafia" firm's records. He was hired because he was very good at digging into the records... getting past blocks... making connections... and figuring out what's really going on.
Unfortunately, Fox and Wayne didn't expect that he'd use his not inconsiderable talents to dig into the WAYNE databases as well... (I'm sure that wasn't part of his defined job, after all!).
You can't just "stumble onto" encrypted files on protected servers... and real companies regularly restrict data access so that nobody in the company has access to anything beyond what their job requires.
No, this guy almost certainly had to dig deep and hard to find that information.
I've worked on a number of military contracts (I'm working on some hardware on the E-2D "Hawkeye" right now, actually). As a rule, the presentation of design data is handled in a very specific fashion... at very specific times in the funding and acquisition process. As of right now, nobody in the Navy has seen even a hint of what I'm working on, though they know the IDEAS behind it. I won't be presenting even a basic concept until we do a "PDR" (preliminary design review) in, probably, two months. And what we'll be presenting at that point will be a CONCEPT, not a finished and proven design. Later in the process, once we've gotten the design done and have done design validation testing, we'll have what's called a "CDR" (critical design review) where we present the final design to the customer, and they'll give us approval to move towards production.
My point? Until CDR, nobody outside of my company need ever have seen the system.
With the "bridging system," it's clear that it never worked. So Waynetech could never have taken it to CDR. Yes, PARTS of the system worked, but it was being sold as a system, not as parts.
It's more likely that someone in the government might've seen it if the government was funding its development... but if it was privately funded internally by Waynetech, there would be no right whatsoever to see the underlying technology until it was actually being approved for military acquisition.
That doesn't negate anything of your basic point though... it merely redirects it. Mr. Fox didn't personally design every nut, bolt, plate, control, strut... I doubt he designed any element of that himself, actually (part of why I've passed up several opportunities for promotion to a management position is that I love doing design work and I don't want to be taken away from that side of things... which inevitably happens with that sort of promotion!)
In other words... there's a team (and probably a fairly LARGE team) who developed each of those pieces of hardware. There's no doubt that there are quite a few Waynetech employees, or former employees, who recognize their own work when they see, or read about, Batman.
Let's just hope that, for Batman's sake, Waynetech's "nondisclosure/intellectual property" agreements were particularly harsh and draconian!
