Sounds like a plotline for Gibson's Neuromancer. I do wonder how much corporate "cloak & dagger" stuff actually happens, and how. You really never hear about it

Sounds like a plotline for Gibson's Neuromancer. I do wonder how much corporate "cloak & dagger" stuff actually happens, and how. You really never hear about it in terms of actually espionage of research, winning over lead scientists through nefarious means, etc.