This quote is astounding: "What I discovered is that our Web sites are being 'scraped' by other companies -- our competitors! Some of the information on our sit

This quote is astounding: "What I discovered is that our Web sites are being 'scraped' by other companies -- our competitors! Some of the information on our sites is valuable intellectual property. It is provided online, in a restricted manner (passwords and such), to our customers. Such restrictions aren't very difficult to overcome for the Web crawlers that our competitors are using, because webmasters usually don't know much about security. They make a token attempt to put passwords and restrictions on sensitive files, but they often don't do a very good job." So this company puts "valuable intellectual property" on the Internet behind token passwords? And if their competitors are accessing their Web site using stolen/guessed credentials, then I think they need the FBI, not F5.