Or the info they have open while working on planes. And some of them are not diligent on locking them if they have to go use the toilet. Not to mention taking i

Or the info they have open while working on planes. And some of them are not diligent on locking them if they have to go use the toilet. Not to mention taking it up a notch by attaching a bug. And why stop there? Listening with lasers is easy, even through windows, right? Shouldn't be hard to rent a few places (or just covertly drop off equipment) and monitor tons of offices. Of course this will probably be prosecuted harderthan an unsympathetic crack dealer. But the individual value of any one compromise is probably low. Unless there was a marketplace where sellers and buyers could list what they have or want. If it was popular enough, then the random "FooCorp: Baz proposal 2015.docx" might be worth something. But that would probably get more heat than Silk Road. And there's an even harder trust issue, since every item is different and proving authenticity is difficult. I do wonder how much corporate espionage goes on. Do all the big companies we know have a secret division trying to illegally get info on competitors? Do they send employees to go work at competitors to spy or sabotage? (Hey, we'll promote you to VP of DB Engineering for a year, then go get poached by X and convince them an XML-based storage engine is the hottest thing.) Or is it just nation states stealing industrial info for their own companies and a few rogue employees flipping for cash? Even if you did work at Intel designing the next cool chip, it's not like you can just call up AMD and offer to sell secrets... Right? I'd imagine buyers would be super scared of something so potentially toxic being offered to them.