Frequent infringements of individual privacy and cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property rights as well as mounting cyber attacks and crimes.

——网络侵害个人隐私和侵犯知识产权时有发生，网络攻击和网络犯罪大幅增长。

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However, the real victims of poverty and disease are already finding themselves in a worse position because of previous attacks on intellectual property.

ECONOMIST: Homeward bound?

Creating a new department to engage in such an exercise would be expensive and distract us from our current efforts to find, hire, and retain the skilled security people we need as the threat rises, the methodologies of the attackers gain in sophistication, and the targets of their attacks expand to all of our intellectual property.

FORBES: An Open Letter to Senator Rockefeller

The lore at Intellectual Ventures has it that Bill Gates asked Myhrvold to set up the company to help defend Microsoft from attacks from patent trolls.

FORBES: Patent Stalker