Stealing Trade Secrets
I was recently looking around for some business related articles I could read about and came across this very interesting piece published on Time.com (article link below). Basically what happened is these two guys tried to steal trade secrets from Coca-Cola (which could be worth enormous amounts of money) and sell them to Pepsi. This is both humorous and frightening at the same time. This was funny to me because honestly, how could these guys possibly have got caught? They must have been either very stupid to get caught, or very smart to come up with the idea in the first place. This is scary at the same time because let’s say these guys accomplished what they set out to do, Pepsi could have easily taken over Coca-Cola’s domination on the market with one simple trade secret stolen. Are these huge multinational corporations really this vulnerable to sabotage? If so any hacker could steal anyones trade secrets and make millions!
I continued to think about this situation and then I thought of something else. Does an enormous company like Coca-Cola (who’s brand image is number one in the world), tribute it’s success to a few trade secrets? Can their entire operation come crumbling down because one disgruntled employee decided to screw over Coca-Cola? I was just wondering about all these questions and decided to make a post where people can give me their input. So take a look at this story (here it is) and post some comments. Let’s get a discussion going about this.
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