Ihsaid, What in Particular Do These Spies Hope to Steal?

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Intangible assets, or ipees, are there for the taking if you know how to get hold of it. Industrial spis is a market where stolen data is sold in packets of all sorts of sizes and levels of importance. We've seen a large number of corporate espionage cases over the past couple of decades involving large companies spying on each other. Probably chief among them is china.

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