AC and corporate espionage

[Girchuck]

Will there be a great fnancial incentive in AC world to assasinate corporate spies in order to significantly raise the price of stealing proprietary information? The company for which the murdered spy was working would not be very interested in conducting a public investigation, and certainly not in bringing a wrongful death lawsuit, because it would expose it to a counter-suit for corporate spying with a much greater potential liability. The spy's family would presumably lack the resources to investigate the murder, if the company arranging a hit hires competent people.

[Brainwalter]

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The company for which the murdered spy was working would not be very interested in conducting a public investigation, and certainly not in bringing a wrongful death lawsuit, because it would expose it to a counter-suit for corporate spying with a much greater potential liability.

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You're assuming that corporate espionage would be liability-inducing.

[Girchuck]

If there is no liability at all, then many companies would find it very risky to trust most of their employees with sensitive information because the rival would sometimes have a very strong incentive to just pay everyone with the access to information and hope somebody will be willing to transfer it.

[tolbiny]

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because it would expose it to a counter-suit for corporate spying with a much greater potential liability

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This doesn't make any sense, if the liability for spying is high then any company who caught a spy wouldn't kill them, they would use him as evidence and sue the pants off the other guys.

[Girchuck]

Even better, torture them to reveal who they are working for. Thats a great plan. Torturing spies makes so much more financial sense than assasinating them.

[BCPVP]

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Even better, torture them to reveal who they are working for. Thats a great plan. Torturing spies makes so much more financial sense than assasinating them.

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Because torture never, ever happens under statism... [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[Girchuck]

I was just trying to explore, if professional assassins and counterintelligence agents specializing in torture will still be in demand. Apparently, their job security will not suffer when the switch to AC is made.

At least all the ultra expensive high tech weaponry with high destructive power probably will not be required anymore, which will be great. If corporations would like to wage real wars, they'll stick to cheap relatively non-destructive 19th century technology, and sell the TV rights to enterntainment conglomerates. The global viewers will pay for the costs. Can you imagine the raitings.

But they'll probably just stick to sniping at each other's talents which are too loyal to switch sides.

[BCPVP]

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I was just trying to explore, if professional assassins and counterintelligence agents specializing in torture will still be in demand.

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Since AC isn't radically changing human nature nor is it a utopia where everyone gets along and plays nicely with others, I'm sure there could be such people, though I doubt it be a bigger problem than it is now.

[pvn]

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If there is no liability at all, then many companies would find it very risky to trust most of their employees with sensitive information because the rival would sometimes have a very strong incentive to just pay everyone with the access to information and hope somebody will be willing to transfer it.

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Companies usually have (or easily could have) contracts (with liability clauses, etc) with their own employees, but usually don't have contracts with spies from other companies.

[Nielsio]

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Will there be a great fnancial incentive in AC world to assasinate corporate spies in order to significantly raise the price of stealing proprietary information?

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