[hcho]

No, never. The risk you are taking is tremendous when signing an NDA. Who is to guarantee that an exact same of your client's idea/technology is not developed elsewhere and your client will hold you responsible for leaking it?

There's also more realistic concerns as well. Most NDAs are written way too broadly. Excluding yourself from a part of the market because of such an NDA is just silly.

[tptacek]

What kind of clients do you work with? I'm trying to understand who could be engaging consultants who would be free to post to Twitter anything they learned about upcoming business plans or software releases.

[hcho]

Clients mostly with MBAlike backgrounds come up with NDAs. If I were to stereotype; an investment banker with a lower to mid six figure bonus, who watched Social Network over the weekend.