>I know that this is a pot shot against the American legal system (especially with regard to copyright stuff), but it really makes no sense. A spy would likely be no more expensive than a legal team (in fact, he'd be subsidized by his salary at Google) and would be monumentally more effective and secretive.
A spy would also be illegal and, more importantly, potentially very embarrassing politically. It should be clear to anyone by now, the US government doesn't care about cost or efficiency. And further, there are secret court proceedings for national security kinds of cases (of which there are literally hundreds at any given time), so there's no secrecy advantage.
UM you know governments have exemptions to those laws in fact these days all western TLA's have a statutory basis took a while in the UK's case mind you.
The US government has no such exemption. They can't put an agent into a domestic company unless there's some evidence the company is deliberately breaking the law.
Thats why a I mentioned statutory if for example the FBI had suspicions that the KGB/SVR or another state had agents within a company they would take action and they have caught a number of spies doing this.
The KGB back in the day had an entire department Line X that was dedicated to industrial espionage - Putin apparently was in this Department
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>I know that this is a pot shot against the American legal system (especially with regard to copyright stuff), but it really makes no sense. A spy would likely be no more expensive than a legal team (in fact, he'd be subsidized by his salary at Google) and would be monumentally more effective and secretive.
A spy would also be illegal and, more importantly, potentially very embarrassing politically. It should be clear to anyone by now, the US government doesn't care about cost or efficiency. And further, there are secret court proceedings for national security kinds of cases (of which there are literally hundreds at any given time), so there's no secrecy advantage.
UM you know governments have exemptions to those laws in fact these days all western TLA's have a statutory basis took a while in the UK's case mind you.
The US government has no such exemption. They can't put an agent into a domestic company unless there's some evidence the company is deliberately breaking the law.
Thats why a I mentioned statutory if for example the FBI had suspicions that the KGB/SVR or another state had agents within a company they would take action and they have caught a number of spies doing this.
The KGB back in the day had an entire department Line X that was dedicated to industrial espionage - Putin apparently was in this Department