USA Today Article on Corporate Espionage: Time for Damage Control Again?

[Ken Sawka]

Curious as to people's thoughts on today's USA Today article on "corporate espionage." http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2009-07-28-corpo... While the article doesn't directly link the CI discipline to the subversive information gathering tactics featured in the article, it will no doubt once again raise the perception that CI is nothing more than corporate spying. Thoughts on what the CI profession, SCIP, and all of us should be doing on a regular basis to continue to dispel these associations?

[Tadeusz Lemańczyk]

Hello, Mark, your reasoning would be described in Polish by two words: "zaklinanie rzeczywistości". Is the wording "conjuration of reality" really ( http://www.culturalanimation.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/zasoby.pdf ) the English equivalent of them? Matthew Griffin writing in the article Image and Ideology in the Work of Heiner Müller (Monatshefte, Vol. 93, No. 4) the sentence "Language has almost a magical function, language as a conjuration of reality, not so much as its description" has convinced me of that. Incidentally, also I want the war games were the only wars [1008 The only wars for warmongers 08/23/1999 12:20 pm EDT, TadFromPoland ( http://www.lemant.user.icpnet.pl/tad/floor5a.html ), available now at http://www.lemant.user.icpnet.pl/tad/bbs1008.htm ]. However, isn't that wish of ours still nothing more than wishful thinking?

Best wishes,
Tad