Industrial espionage remains a growing concern in an age where intellectual property and computer software are the most valuable assets of many companies.
Last year, a foreign hacker compromised Google’s systems, purportedly acting on behalf of the Chinese government. Earlier this year, a programmer at a major investment bank was convicted of misappropriating source code for a valuable, proprietary trading system and attempting to transmit the code to a startup company. And several months ago, a major corporation filed suit claiming that employees stole the specifications for a secret titanium pigment manufacturing process and intended to provide the secrets to a foreign competitor.
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