Threat | Theft cont’d

• Ex: Cereal companies

  • Company-A secretly develops new cereal
  • Company-B releases a nearly identical product just before Company-A
  • Company-A loses $1B
  • Coincidence or industrial espionage?

• Ex: Adult entertainment company hires hacker to download all content from a competing site

  • Filters usually prevent massive downloads
  • Hacker succeeded, posted content to newsgroups
  • Potentially weakens copyright protection of stolen content