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Obituary: Pioneering FBI agent battled Silicon Valley tech crime in chip-theft heyday
These days, thieves hit Apple stores and scamper out with every iPhone they can grab. In Silicon Valley’s early years, criminals — sometimes with guns — went after the technology industry’s building block: the small but precious computer chip. They robbed …