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Countries don't usually engage in espionage on behalf of private entities, with other private entities as their target, with explicit economic goals.
by diminoten 14y ago
Countries don't usually engage in espionage on behalf of private entities, with other private entities as their target, with explicit economic goals.
- HarryHirsch 14y agoWhat? Industrial espionage is age-old, and you would expect nations to engage in it. It is a method of economic development.
- diminoten 14y agoNo you wouldn't, that's a huge conflict of interest in the modern world.
- hindsightbias 14y agoChina is the new France http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/14/news/14iht-spy_.html http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/14/news/14iht-spy_.html (which was the new Japan in 91 or so).
- diminoten 14y agoNo they're not, this is unlike anything anyone's ever done before, unless you decide to generalize to the point where you lose almost all relevant data.