Many companies, probably most of them, in fact, have secrets they want to keep. It could just as well be the critical code behind a piece of software or some sensitive email. And companies seem to be putting more efforts into snatching their competitors secrets. Once upon a time, snooping of this kind was mostly centered on a few sensitive industries,. things like defence, pharmaceticles and so on. But i think we're going to be looking at a lot of discussion without an awful lot of movement in the next coming days and weeks.
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