[jimmyfalcon]

A personal principle I have is that you cannot contain secrets because they inevitably leak. So the starting assumption must be, can you deal with a leak?

I imagine that they would have had similar conversations when the corporates joined the "club" for getting information. What is the downside to participating in this? Maybe you get shits from media for a bit and then everyone forgets and you carry on in your business.

Having come from another country, I am truly glad that US residents are far more sensitive (therefore downsides are higher for US corporates), Chinese people for example, don't care as much and as a result corporates can get away with more and consciously choose to do more

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Far more sensitive? I doubt that they care that other countries suffer from it, after all "everybody spies".