techno bandit

tech·no·ban·dit

[tek-nuh-ban-dit]
noun Informal.
a person who steals technological secrets, as from the government or a place of employment, and sells them to agents of foreign governments or to competing firms.

Origin:
1980–85; techno- + bandit

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