What are the chances that type of story could be repeated today? Seems pretty unlikely, but corporations are in some ways 'dumb' and we do base a lot of our society on trust.
At Apple? None whatsoever. It was a surprising fluke that even in the Apple of 1993. It only succeeded because so many people helped. That Apple was beleaguered at the time may have given employees a certain devil-may-care attitude towards their own job security and a willing to cross certain lines to assist us or look the other way.