> Those internal documents are property of PDVSA; it even say so in each of those internal documents, that the information is confidential and property of PDVSA

> Those internal documents are property of PDVSA; it even say so in each of those internal documents, that the information is confidential and property of PDVSA I have no idea about Venezuelan law, but in the U.S., that's more of a statement of intent than a legally dispositive statement. Try this google search: http://www.google.com/search?q=this+document+is+confidential+and+proprietary http://www.google.com/search?q=this+document+is+confidential... Am I breaking the law by reading those? A search for "internal PDVSA memo" shows that journalists inside and outside Venezuela have published information from them before, so maybe the law is not so different there. > which is not clear if they did through backdoors in the software or just with spies inside the company Well, probably somebody emailed it to him with a comment like "Is there any truth to this?" or "Any comment?" or "You might be interested in this." I suppose you could call them "spies", but I doubt they got compensated for it!