National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor Giovanni Melillo has publicly denounced the existence of a giant clandestine market for classified information. "I did this," he tells the Corriere della Sera paper, "to clearly indicate the basic features of the criminal scenarios toward which to direct prevention and control policies. The abusive collection, manipulation, trading and instrumental use of confidential information held in digital archives have long become the tools of both traditional criminal organizations and the savage forms of competition inherent in corporate and political markets”. So is classified information also used to influence the economy and politics? "What other purpose can it have to abusively access and accumulate digital data useful for the formation of illegal dossiers? It is not even necessary to use the information, sometimes it is enough to make it known that it can be done". Is it true that criminal organizations try to enlist more computer experts than killers? "Virtual space has become the fundamental organizational linchpin of the most dangerous forms of organized crime. Criminal structures and leadership are increasingly selected on the basis of their ability to govern technologies: tax, commercial and banking fraud, as well as money laundering phenomena, are possible on a large scale only in the digital world and constitute ordinary areas of activity of mafia organizations, as such entrusted to technicians of proven ability. Computer consultants and engineers are now among the most valuable resources of criminal organizations as well”.