espionage

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the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets

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noun

the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets

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noun

the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets

Example sentences

Experiencing raids, espionage and death threats, we're still here.

If it's state secrets, he'd be facing treason and espionage charges.

Now espionage charges apply when someone leaks that the government bugged everyone's phone.

People who do counter-espionage and counter-terrorism it what amounts to a police state.

* I'm not sure I follow how the most famous act of computer-aided industrial espionage isn't germane to hardware backdoors.

For starters, here are a few ways this can go horribly wrong:* Industrial espionage -- it's big business, and I'm sure it pays better than being an NSA analyst.

If the government equates being a whistleblower with espionage or aiding the enemy, what is the future of journalism in this country?

[1] If you're doing business on the Chinese mainland, it seems pretty likely you'll be within three steps of 'potential terrorists', given the whole cyber cold war and economic espionage thing.

Arguably, he did not commit espionage eitherthe DoJ under the Obama administration has charged seven other whistleblowers with that crime and in at least some cases the courts have found them not guilty.

Even if it includes brutal copying of a competitor's business model, or bribery of a government official, or direct corporate espionage being employed.