[saagarjha]

I mean, not even that. The cost to buy a software engineer and get them hired at the place you want to attack is really not that high. Once inside it’s generally possible to get things in (“the guild server was failing so I SSHed in and fixed it”).

[dboreham]

Whispers for decades that NSA does this.

[netsharc]

Or have them compromised? In the spy movies they'd send a female agent to seduce and then blackmail the married high ranking official, a scenario that bachelor software developers probably dream of.