Compare and contrast espionage and sabotage.

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

A strong answer will include the definitions of both and include an explanation as to what makes them different or similar. Cyberespionage should be distinguished as both economic and political.
a. Political espionage—is typically used to gain access to sensitive information and/or to fatally damage a network. It is motivated by the collection and provision of sensitive information from the U.S. government to other entities or agencies abroad.
b. Economic espionage—an act that occurs when an actor, knowing or intending that his or her actions will benefit any foreign government, instrumentality or agent, knowingly: (1) steals, or without authorization appropriates, carries away, conceals, or obtains by deception or fraud a trade secret; (2) copies, duplicates, reproduces, destroys, uploads, downloads, or transmits that trade secret without authorization; or (3) receives a trade secret knowing that the trade secret had been stolen, appropriated, obtained, or converted without authorization.
c. Sabotage—as an “act of hampering, deliberating, subverting, or hurting the efforts of another”