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[NotTheGuyYouKill]

Has anyone ever dealt with corporate espionage, experienced it, or worked for a company where it happened? Have you ever been a corporate spy? Or got back stabbed by one?

 

[cwmartin]

Somebody took my peach without asking me once.

 

[Aylinato]

I live near Detroit, Michigan where corporate espionage of our American auto industries R&D happens regularly. I know people who worked for foreign companies stealing secrets, and our police forces in the state focus on catching the spies. We've had people steal cars from the autoshow just to steal the secrets of cars. There's just too many people involved to be able to stop people from stealing from American companies and send their data to china/japan.


Mind you the big 3 also deal in defense contracts/nuclear missiles, so it is a big deal.

 

[Rentahamster]

I've played Syndicate, so, yes, lots!

 

[GungHo]

The people who can answer this might not be able to answer this. Might be better to ask this question again in regards to a specific incident or scenario you're thinking about.

 

[psylah]

I dropped the screw in the tuna.

 

[Mudcrab]

I doubt anyone would fess up to actual corporate espionage.

My personal favorite corporate espionage story is that of The Guiding Hand Social Club

Spoiler

which is cheating since it happens in EVE Online, but who doesn't like a good EVE story?

 

[thespot84]

Been going on for millennia:

http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/philolog/2011/08/byzantine_silk_smuggling_and_e.html

 

[captive]

I had my think geek IT Monkey who was our IT Mascot stolen from my desk. He was held for ransom and was sent around the country on trips. I would periodically get emails with updates.

Probably not the corporate espionage you were referring to.

 

[Phoenix]

I doubt anyone would fess up to actual corporate espionage.

Unless they are a complete moron - but yes it happens a LOT in the IT space.

 

[James Woods]

Considering this kind of shit can get you killed I doubt anyone here is gonna fess up to anything.

 

[Funky Papa]

I'm pretty sure one of my clients was spied due to an employee leaving for a competing company and using internal communications in their advantage for months. Managers basically forgot to delete him from the internal mail list and some file servers and as a result received lots of sensible information until they found his user name during a clean up. I don't have any solid proof, but the way his new company was able to outmaneuver his previous employer in some areas was more than suspectful.

 

[RobertM]

Some gaffer used to have that job, wondering where he's now...

 

[Imperial Hot]

I've got a good one.

I work for Apple, well I did, but I quit and I brought a fuck ton of confidential stuff over to Google when I started there. I was on the iOS dev team.

It's whatevs.

 

[ronito]

All I can say is I've signed several very strong NDAs.

 

[Daft_Cat]

I've had to sign a pretty iron-clad NDA at my current job. I'd be scared to break that even for the right price.

 

[hipbabboom]

The lawsuits you here about are a very small tip of the iceberg.

 

[Brakke]

I've got a good one.

I work for Apple, well I did, but I quit and I brought a fuck ton of confidential stuff over to Google when I started there. I was on the iOS dev team.

It's whatevs.

Is this a slam on Google ripping off iOS.

Or are you serious.

 

[TacticalFox88]

lol, you guys and your tech companies.

Try the shit at Lockheed or Boeing. That shit is liable to, literally, get you killed, depending on the situation.

 

[Gorillaz]

Some gaffer used to have that job, wondering where he's now...

I thought bout that too every once and awhile. He confessed about it in the confessions thread. It was real interesting

 

[Phoenix]

I've had to sign a pretty iron-clad NDA at my current job. I'd be scared to break that even for the right price.

When you perform acts of corporate espionage, the idea is not to do so such that people would know you're violating your NDA. You are literally taking intellectual property and providing it to someone under the table "for profit". This would be like someone at Apple taking screen shots for the new iPhone and providing that to Samsung.

 

[Oersted]

When you perform acts of corporate espionage, the idea is not to do so such that people would know you're violating your NDA. You are literally taking intellectual property and providing it to someone under the table "for profit". This would be like someone at Apple taking screen shots for the new iPhone and providing that to Samsung.