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    Espionage, the use of spying to obtain secret information regarding the intentions and capabilities of other persons, groups, organizations, or states is largely seen as a modern twentieth-century phenomenon (Burds, 2012). In reality, it is one of the oldest political and military acts, appearing in historical and literary accounts since the beginning of recorded history. A vital tool of statecraft, espionage shapes foreign policy and changes how wars proceed. Unbeknownst to many Americans, subterfuge

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    women has progressed drastically, however, the dainty and caring presentation of a woman still remains to be a flaw. This flaw has built the fundamental depiction of women in films and television, especially within the workforce such as espionage. Although espionage is considered a treacherous, exhilarating, and uncommon profession for women, it has developed into a profession with a femme fetal description rather than an independently vigorous female title.

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    Corporate espionage attacks are not necessarily committed by adversarial and friendly foreign powers. They may also be committed by competing industrial players whose goal is to steal technology for an upper intellectual advantage, and in doing so, undermine the victim-nation's economy. And while businesses with sensitive defense and government information capabilities are the primary targets of foreign targeting, private organizations have also grown increasingly vulnerable due to the vast expansion

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    it ‘Aurora’. The Aurora attackers used targeted emails with malware sent to individuals who were judged as good targets because they were likely to have a high level of access to valuable intellectual property. The reaction to this act of cyber espionage varied around the world. Microsoft sent a security breach report

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    tools to gather information and perform attacks against industrial control systems. These groups use all of the same tactics as cyber criminals such as social engineering, spam, malware, spyware, and other malicious software and tactics to commit espionage and intelligence gathering for their government or

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    The Impact Of Spies in the Civil War Levi A. King Global Impact STEM Academy The Impact of Spies in the Civil War Throughout the entire American Civil War, spies and scouts play a major war in winning key battles. Both the Union and Confederacy used spies to gather information. Spies could make reports based off information they gathered from field agents, prisoners of war, refugees, newspapers, articles, and documents retrieved from corpses found on the battlefield. Both sides used

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    government and private organizations. One of the biggest questions still remains unanswered. Should the U.S. Congress conduct an in depth assessment of Chinese cyber spying and consider imposing tougher penalties on companies that benefit from industrial espionage. In this paper I will review china’s cyber threat and possible USA solutions to protect against the threat. Could Weak USA Cyber Policy be the cause of China’s Security Threat? U.S. corporations and cyber security specialists have reported an

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    Rural surveillance, although can be done in almost any settings, is usually conducted in rural, farming, countryside or isolated areas where the use of an observation van is impractical. (Jenkins, 2010, p.205). The allegations and charges that were cited in both the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents were severe enough to warrant such surveillance and information gathering. The allegations and charges in the case of the Waco siege and stand-off include firing of automatic weapons from their compound,

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    The Importance of Cold War Era Spies Spies were part of the cold war because of many reasons. They used spies on the side to discover what a side was doing and to also give false knowledge of the other side they are against. Many people never really figured who was a spy and who wasn’t during this rough era of distraught. This specific job was very dangerous because if you were caught you were most likely not to be rescued by anyone. If you were sent to prison or you were executed, it was mostly

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    and he had won a pulitzer so now he was near untouchable. It is extremely hard to sue a whole newspaper company and a pulitzer prize winner. Should journalists who acquired secret information by bribery or tapping wire calls be treated with the espionage act because they used and illegal way of obtaining their information? Journalists who bag the information themselves can be jailed because they were technically the leakers. People are afraid of reporting things like secret information because they

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