She documented the company's espionage, price wars, heavy-handed marketing tactics, and courtroom evasions.
While BAE didn't identify the source of the attacks, a German company said the espionage software has "Russian roots".
In a lawsuit filed in December 2003, Taiwan Semiconductor accused the Chinese company of corporate espionage, including stealing trade secrets, and asserted that Semiconductor Manufacturing had copied some of its processes.
Last week, Starwood sued the two executives and Hilton, accusing the company of corporate espionage and its ex-employees of stealing trade secrets to expedite Hilton's plans for Denizen Hotels.
Semiconductor Manufacturing International, China's largest maker of custom chips, accused Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Wednesday of conducting a "smear campaign" after Taiwan Semiconductor filed new documents this week in its lawsuit accusing the Chinese company of corporate espionage.
Administration officials complained that spot checks on medical research facilities authorized by the convention would be too intrusive and would expose American companies to industrial espionage.
IN ITS ZEAL to impose its severe standards on U.S. industry, the Environmental Protection Agency may unwittingly have opened American companies to industrial espionage.
Last month, Dr. Son, who works for a Vietnamese pharmaceutical company, was sentenced on espionage charges to 13 years imprisonment for exchanging e-mail with overseas pro-democracy advocates and distributing material about democratic institutions that he translated from an American government Web site.
Concerned about computer fraud, theft of proprietary company software and industrial espionage, American companies will spend $6.3 billion on computer security this year, according to DataQuest.
American fears may be based on the fact that its leaders know from experience that telecoms companies can be helpful espionage assets.
