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After studying engineering in a province college, focalized on information sciences, Philippe Richard was hired as a contract analyst by a French intelligence agency. The main part of his work was the gathering, processing and synthesis of information from open sources: clipboard, television and internet media mainly, so called Open-source intelligence (OSINT). At the end of his contract, he created his business as a strategy consultant and information collecting specialist, for businesses, and especially SMEs.

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  Business / 2014-11-13

  The booming business of industrial spies

  Philippe Richard / Entrepreneur

  Undercover ops, one of the darker sides of life, occasionally suffers from sudden exposure in the media, witness how the Concorde’s specification blueprints ended up in Russia or when US secret services used massive listening Big Ears (Ech…