Trade Secret Theft, Industrial Espionage, and the China Threat

136 Trade Secret Theft, Industrial Espionage, and the China Threat

Creativity is required to obtain the information. Unless an individual mistakenly tosses the docu-

ment into the trash, or it is improperly destroyed, or makes an unauthorized copy (“because the rules

are too stringent and I need to work on the project at home”) and then does not properly destroy it,

the document is bound to become lost somewhere along the way.

People also duplicate the document or portions thereof, without ensuring that the controls placed

on the initial document are carried over to the duplicated copy. The document may be copied with-

out the knowledge of the legal document owner, and no controls are in place for the document

except what the person who copied ...