How many trillions of nuyen had been invested in this "ultra-secure" technology? There was no way that the megacorps, the governments, could switch everything to another medium of communication, not immediately. And during the transition phase, whoever had the technology Falcon described could quite literally control every facet of a competitor’s communications. To gain that kind of advantage—or to avoid that kind of disadvantage —the corps would do anything. Even go to war.