industrial spying

[NKVD]

I went to an university today where they make tests on rats where security was like as high as when I went to Norfolk naval base. They said because they feared industrial spying by pharmaceutical companies. I mean does anyone ever witnessed such spying? Does industrial spying happens that offen. anyone ever been asked some questions?

I dont really believes that happens at all. I guess companies may want to know what the others are working on but not more than that, or am I wrong?

 

[Bamspeedy]

I believe it can happen, but if the companies (trying to steal the information) worry about their future at all it wouldn't be advisable in case they were caught.

I think what the companies would worry about most is the formulas of their products being sold to black-market companies.

There was a case where a lady stole the formula for Coca-cola and then tried to sell it to Pepsi (or it was from Pepsi trying to sell it to Coca-cola, I can't remember), but the company she tried to sell the formula to called the cops because they didn't want to be involved with those illegal activities.

 

[Chandrasekhar]

Maybe it rarely happens... because the companies are so cautious about it?

 

[Perfection]

I've worked in fields where some ruthless information gathering was employed by all parties, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if some parties engaged in illegal or grossly unethical actions.

Information can be worth a lot of money. Keeping your information safe is often vital to profitability.

 

[El_Machinae]

I've seen the most security with regards to contracts (that have evolved to business reference documents) - usually those contracts would be necessary to underbid the corporation, and thus really handy to the competitors.

 

[Masquerouge]

Well more often that not, it's pretty hard to find the information you're looking for if you don't know where it is.
So just saying "I'm going to break into company B's network and steal a bunch of useful information" is not gonna do it. My company has like 50 networks with thousands of folders in each, and if you don't know how it is organized it's useless.
So unless you know howit is organized, meaning you're an inside man, most of the time my guess is that you won't be able to retrieve anything significant.

 

[NKVD]

I believe it can happen, but if the companies (trying to steal the information) worry about their future at all it wouldn't be advisable in case they were caught.

I think what the companies would worry about most is the formulas of their products being sold to black-market companies.

There was a case where a lady stole the formula for Coca-cola and then tried to sell it to Pepsi (or it was from Pepsi trying to sell it to Coca-cola, I can't remember), but the company she tried to sell the formula to called the cops because they didn't want to be involved with those illegal activities.

C'mon we all know what's in the Pepsi. Plus it seems to me that if you run the liquid in some kind of spectrogram analysis it will give you the accurate composition

 

[Rhymes]

It happens all the time in the technologies industry. I once audited a small software developing company and one thing we had to do was to test there anti spying controls. The administrator told us about many shocking stories about companies getting ripped.