[dirtboy]

The flip side is, a lot of white-collar crime has the ability to impact thousands of people economically. If someone steals my car, it affects only me and I have insurance for it. But if a crooked CEO tanks a stock that I own, me and thousands of others are out millions of total dollars with little recourse for recovering that money.

[Archangelsk]

Good point. The reason we sentence spies, such a Ronald Pelton to life in prison or death, is because of the untold billions of dollars that are wasted as a result of the compromise of our intel systems.