I’ve worked in places where industrial espionage was prevalent to a degree that necessitated routine social engineering resistance training.

And serious OP/PHYS-SEC. I’ve literally witnessed entire “recruitment offices” set up and pulled down over night, staffed with actor aspirants hired to pump prospective employees for information about their current work. It’s nasty out there.

There’s good reasons why, when people ask me ‘what I do’, I answer ‘stuff with computers’ and nothing else.