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Industrial espionage and corporate intelligence are massively prevalent in today's business world.
It is not unusual for a corporation to hire a spy or spies to investigate their competition and their hold on the market share.
This business intelligence is both helpful and harmful because while sometimes it is merely getting the new sales plans of your company, it could be getting the patent filings of your brand new invention.
One form of this espionage might get the corporation a little jump on your plans, the other could destroy you entirely.
This is terrifying news because few have the security implemented to thwart these attacks on your privacy and protect your information.
While most consider security to be entirely involving firewalls and system administratiors who spend long hours using encryption, all of that can be bypassed by the people hacker.
If I call up your company and begin asking for simple information like the name of a sales representative who supposedly contacted me or for the head of your information technology department, that should be a legitimate request, right? To the people hacker, that is the first step to invading your privacy.
