Imagine your main business competitor building a satellite-equipped "war room" to secretly monitor your new ventures. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Marketing to both the business set and fans of cloak-and-dagger will enhance sales.Ĭopyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. 18) Forecast: With publication coming on the heels of the recent break-in at Microsoft, and a New York Times Magazine excerpt scheduled for December 3, Penenberg and Barry's deeply intriguing book is bound to get a lot of play and should wind up as one of the season's must-have reads. Penenberg and Barry report hair-raising tales of corporate skulduggery in loving detail, including how companies like Motorola and Avery Dennison have reaped huge benefits from their corporate-intelligence investments. In the tradition of John le Carr, the industry has already developed its own colorful lingo for its various types of snoops, ranging from "the librarian"Dwho only searches publicly available sources of informationDto the "trade-show cowboy," who assumes a false identity to skulk around conventions.
Nevertheless, they contend, a clear indicator of growth in the new corporate-spy industry is the emergence of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, which sets ethical guidelines and standards of conduct for the industry and reportedly has 7,000 members. In-house spy units, Penenberg and Barry claim, are cloaked behind doors with division titles like external development, market research and strategic marketing and, therefore, can't be accurately counted. Penenberg, an investigative journalist for Forbes, and Barry, founder of a corporate intelligence agency, argue that, in an environment of blistering competition, the edge belongs to the company with the best information on its rivals. Paranoia levels will shoot through the ceiling among those who read this riveting report on the growing number of companies that spy on their competition in the U.S. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. They offer an unsettling portrait of America's publicly traded companies, and unravel the truth and hypocrisy behind the multi-billion dollar corporate intelligence industry. In this page-burning exposé, Adam Penenberg and Marc Barry uncover and describe in thrilling detail the alarming regularity of espionage in industry. Spooked thrusts readers into a clandestine world-where business means war and information is worth stealing.Through narrative accounts of corporate spies within companies such as IBM, Microsoft, and Motorola, Spooked dramatically brings to life one of America's fastest-growing industries: Corporate Intelligence. Impossible? This isn't a story line from the latest spy thriller, it's modern-day corporate America. Imagine your classified product prototype mysteriously landing on the market under the brand name belonging to your archrival. It also criminalizes conspiracy to engage in such acts and the harboring or concealing of violators.Imagine your main business competitor building a satellite-equipped "war room" to secretly monitor your new ventures.
It criminalizes the photographing and publishing or selling of information regarding defense installations and the furnishing of certain classified information against the interests of the United States.
The law is currently codified under Title 18 and, as when originally enacted, prohibits acts pertaining to the gathering, transmitting, delivery, or loss of national defense information. government) passed, some provisions were allowed to expire. Once war opposition waned and the so-called Red Scare (i.e., fear of a perceived Bolshevik conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. Mitchell Palmer), drew widespread protest and ultimately discredited some high government officials. The disregard of basic civil liberties during these “Palmer raids,” as they came to be known (because of the prominence of Attorney General A. In combination with the Sedition Act of 1918, which amended it, the Act was used as the basis for launching an unprecedented campaign against political radicals, suspected dissidents, left-wing organizations, and aliens. It served to suppress opposition to the United States entry into World War I by making criticism of U.S. Originally codified under Title 50, criminalized espionage, interfering with military operations and foreign policy, obstructing the newly instituted draft, and encouraging insubordination and disloyalty.
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