After the money's spent, all that remains of the experience is pilfered stationery and the scent of Jo Malone bubblebath.
Nobody wants pilfered microwaves or DVD players.
A string of recent high-profile intrusions by hackers, ranging from the devastating cyber-attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment to the news this week that crafty hackers had pilfered large sums of money from banks in Russia and elsewhere, have propelled cyber-security to the top of boardroom agendas.
So, unless further revelations show that more sensitive data has been pilfered, the damage is limited.
Finished ballots were pilfered from letterboxes or obtained from postmen.
That password, it appears, was one of the millions pilfered from the professional social network in a security breach that came to light in June.
Some pirates are recruited by the state: Sir Francis Drake pilfered for England, and the Pentagon employs past hackers, too.
It was created to avoid repeating the past, when a kleptocratic president, Siaka Stevens, made secret extraction deals for his own benefit, prompting a resentful people eventually to rebel, with help from next-door Liberia, whose leaders pilfered Sierra Leone's diamonds.Three aspects of the new deals are troubling.
An operation dubbed GhostNet, apparently originating in China, pilfered information from over 100 countries.
Funds pilfered by Ferdinand Marcos that were frozen in 1986 were not released to the Philippines government until 2002.
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