Industrial espionage is older than the digital age and is not confined to hacking. It has been happening for centuries and many civilizations have undertaken ef

Industrial espionage is older than the digital age and is not confined to hacking. It has been happening for centuries and many civilizations have undertaken efforts to take knowledge that was legally protected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling_of_silkworm_eggs_into_the_Byzantine_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling_of_silkworm_eggs_int... https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/porcelain-corporate-espionage-china-missionary-dentrecolles https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/porcelain-corporate-es... Harris, John (1998). Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer: Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited. p. 680. ISBN 0-7546-0367-9. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-industrial-espionage-started-americas-cotton-revolution-180967608/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-industrial-esp... https://theintercept.com/2014/09/05/us-governments-plans-use-economic-espionage-benefit-american-corporations/ https://theintercept.com/2014/09/05/us-governments-plans-use... https://www.the-american-interest.com/2014/12/10/the-new-industrial-espionage/ https://www.the-american-interest.com/2014/12/10/the-new-ind... https://searchinginhistory.blogspot.com/2015/02/francis-cabot-lowell-from-industrial.html https://searchinginhistory.blogspot.com/2015/02/francis-cabo... https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-02-18/us-complains-other-nations-are-stealing-us-technology-america-has-history https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-02-18/us-complains-other-na... https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=3729 https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=3729 The fact that we don't hear much about our own examples of stealing other civilization's secrets is just a matter of the fact that we are now ahead. If the tables were turned just like they were in the past, we'd go right back to stealing other people's tech. To say that other people shouldn't do things that we have and would do makes little sense. That isn't to say that we shouldn't protect ourselves, it's just to say that people need to stop the damn moralizing as if we were any better.