Based on all articles which I posted until now, I find that economic or industrial espionage commonly occurs in one of two ways. Firstly, a dissatisfied employee spread information to damage the company or, secondly, a competitor or foreign government seeks information for its own interest. Persons who work within an organization and secretly pass important information to another organization or country are generally believed the best sources for economic or industrial espionage. It is a fact that insiders can be encouraged or eagerly provide information for the others. In the other hand, individuals may leave one company to take up employment with another and take sensitive information with them which have resulted in legal battles between giants companies. In recent years, some countries hire individuals to do spying rather than make use of their own agents. The interesting point in my mind is that spy basically is anyone who has legal access to the premises and can use it illegally like software engineer, academics, a maintenance man, a cleaner and etc.
I read an article that said in Japan students are often thought to be utilized by governments in gathering information have been and expect students be debriefed on returning home.
Computers due to the ease of access to large amounts of information, through physical contact or via the internet have made these process and bringing new concepts of crime.
