surprised to hear this? i’m not…not with at least one new corporate opprobrium welcoming me each new morning…to recap: according to research notes in new scientist based on the work of two uk psychologists, “Monkeys and apes who are good at deceiving their peers also have the biggest brains relative to their body size…finding backs the “Machiavellian intelligence” theory, which suggests the benefits of complex social skills fueled the evolution of large primate brains…monkeys might feign disinterest in tasty food so that others do not come and steal it.”

let’s translate this to any given corporate macaques…are morally bankrupt researchers smarter? perhaps we need to rethink corporate espionage and how we look for new ways to spot it (and will you please stop just relying on ’security software’?) - maybe we need to start looking a bit more closely at incidents like THIS (thanks to bonnie at scip for that). this guy from huawei (tech company) got nabbed gathering ‘tradeshow intelligence,‘ - something which many scip members sell as a service to america’s leading corporations (and most corps really dig this kind of service).

is the ability to be this sneaky and do this kind of work relegated so that buyers might keep an arm’s length from the transaction? or is this a sign that corporations are fans of buying services from potential info-gathering-grifters whose outsourced brains exceed the quality of their own salaried gray-matter? …whatever the case, if your own research training program includes watching the movie fletch, then you better rethink what you’re trying to do…keep an eye on the legal issues, and remember why they exist in the first place!

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