xpensive wrote:But you never know
And there is the problem : Nobody knew what Stepney
et al knew until they got caught.
They say that walls have ears, but phones have cameras, usb sticks and flash memory devices come in all shapes and sizes, mobile technology makes smuggling details out of somewhere as simple as the press of a button and the internet makes speculation spread like wildfire.
ANYBODY with access to anything remotely secret can pass on information, whether they have the knowledge to understand it or not : plausible doubt in an employee's integrity is enough to destroy a career in any highly secretive industry, so posting up a statement that you have no loyalty to your current employer (which I have seen in one of these threads) is a folly of monumental proportions.
When publicly hinting that you know something that is worth millions of pounds in development time and that your loyalty is negotiable (again, taken from these very boards), should you expect a reaction any less severe?