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by ehsankia 876 days ago
Exactly. It's literally called "insider trading". There's nothing "insider" about an customer discovering something about the company's product while using it. The source of the information was not from "inside" the company.
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But the customer was literally “inside” the problematic plane. :)
But the plane is owned by the airline, not the manufacturer, so they are inside a Boeing, but they are not a Boeing insider.