Espionage in Academica – Are American Universities Vulnerable?

Corporations in the United States lose hundreds of billions of dollars each year through industrial espionage, the theft of proprietary commercial information. Over the past two decades, many of these incidents have been noteworthy for their alleged conduct at the behest of foreign governments, their use of sophisticated technology, and the sheer scope of their targets: telecommunication, transportation innovation, computer components, digital software development, aerospace engineering endeavors, and the like.