How to steal corporate secrets in 20 minutes: Ask

Contestants were given only 25 minutes to work. So with the clock ticking, MacDougall lucked out on his next mark -- a contract employee in the security engineering department who had been with the company for two months. After a few softball questions about job satisfaction and the quality of the cafeteria food, he went for the hard data.

The mark delivered: operating system: Windows XP, service pack 3; antivirus: McAfee VirusScan 8.7; e-mail: Outlook 2003, service pack 3; browser: IE 6.